personal rights quotes

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.