"All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights."

"Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence."

"The denial of God conduced to the denial of God-given rights – and that, in turn, conduced to rights becoming eminent…"

"Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere license."

"The leading contemporary non-consequentialist theories are those which are framed in the language of rights. Followin…"

"There is now, more than ever, a strong tendency to advance moral claims and arguments in terms of rights. Assertion o…"

"[P]roponents of the right can simply assert the existence of a right to privacy and, equally validly, opponents can a…"

"[A]t the descriptive level, the intuitive appeal of rights claims, and the absolutist and foreceful manner in which t…"

"[W]e do not believe that there is no role in moral discourse for rights claims. Rather, we content that the only mann…"

"Mensuraque juris Vis erat."