Tag: Rights

1175: Don’t Take Your Liberties For Granted

W1175: Don't Take Your Liberties For Granted
There is a 3300-volt electric fence along the borders of North Korea. Don’t take your freedom and liberties for granted.

There is a 3300-volt electric fence along the borders of North Korea. Don’t take your freedom and liberties for granted.

1174: Ayn Rand – Individual Rights are Not Subject to a Public Vote

W1174: Ayn Rand - Individual Rights are Not Subject to a Public Vote
A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. Individual Rights are not subject to a public vote. —Ayn Rand

A majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. Individual Rights are not subject to a public vote. —Ayn Rand

1161: Andrew Napolitano – Common Good vs. Your Natural Rights

W1161: Andrew Napolitano – Common Good vs. Your Natural Rights
No matter how well-intentioned these governors may be, no matter how sound their medical advice is, if the common good could trump your natural rights then they wouldn't be rights. —Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mises Institute, 13 July 2020)
No matter how well-intentioned these governors may be, no matter how sound their medical advice is, if the common good could trump your natural rights then they wouldn't be rights. —Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mises Institute, 13 July 2020)Download Print Quality (3840×2010) 7.30MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 196KB
No matter how well-intentioned these governors may be, no matter how sound their medical advice is, if the common good could trump your natural rights then they wouldn't be rights. —Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mises Institute, 13 July 2020)Download Print Quality (3840×2744) 9.40MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 247KB

No matter how well-intentioned these governors may be, no matter how sound their medical advice is, if the common good could trump your natural rights then they wouldn’t be rights. —Judge Andrew Napolitano (Mises Institute, 13 July 2020)

1140: Anthony Welti – No Moral Difference in Different Kinds of Taxes

W1140: Anthony Welti - No Moral Difference in Different Kinds of Taxes
There is no moral difference between a sales tax, property tax or income tax. They all take, without consent, what someone created with their freedom and liberty and give it to an entity that has no right to have it. — Anthony Welti

There is no moral difference between a sales tax, property tax or income tax. They all take, without consent, what someone created with their freedom and liberty and give it to an entity that has no right to have it. — Anthony Welti

1132: Frank Zappa – The Government Doesn’t Own You

W1132: Frank Zappa - The Government Doesn't Own You
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a 'temporary license to exist' — in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government, it doesn't own you. —Frank Zappa

I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a ‘temporary license to exist’ — in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government, it doesn’t own you. —Frank Zappa

1122: David Friedman – Drug-Induced Ecstasy is a Right

W1122: David Friedman - Drug-Induced Ecstasy
If the addict is willing to trade his health or his life for a few years, or months, or minutes of drug-induced ecstasy, that is his affair. Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion. —David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom)
If the addict is willing to trade his health or his life for a few years, or months, or minutes of drug-induced ecstasy, that is his affair. Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion. —David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom)Download Print Quality (3840×2010) 2.55MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 212KB
If the addict is willing to trade his health or his life for a few years, or months, or minutes of drug-induced ecstasy, that is his affair. Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion. —David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom)Download Print Quality (3840×2744) 3.27MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 260KB
If the addict is willing to trade his health or his life for a few years, or months, or minutes of drug-induced ecstasy, that is his affair. Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion. —David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom)

1116: Harriet Tubman – Liberty or Death

W1116: Harriet Tubman - Liberty or Death
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. —Harriet Tubman
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. —Harriet TubmanDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 2.31MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 187KB
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. —Harriet TubmanDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 2.97MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 238KB
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. —Harriet Tubman

1100: Rose Wilder Lane – Economic Security and Human Rights

W1100: Rose Wilder Lane - Economic Security and Human Rights
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him. While he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. —Rose Wilder Lane
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him. While he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. —Rose Wilder Lane

1090: Walter Williams – Right to Something Not Earned

F1090: Walter Williams - Right to Something Not Earned
If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person NOT have a right to something that he DID earn. —Walter Williams
If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person NOT have a right to something that he DID earn. —Walter Williams

1087: Murray Rothbard – How Do We Define Rights?

F1087: Murray Rothbard - Define Rights?
"Right" has cogently and trenchantly been defined by Professor Sadowsky:“When we say that one has the right to do certain things we mean this and only this, that it would be immoral for another, alone or in combination, to stop him from doing this by the use of physical force or the threat thereof. We do not mean that any use a man makes of his property within the limits set forth is necessarily a moral use.”Sadowsky's definition highlights the crucial distinction between a man's right and the morality or immorality of his exercise of that right. —Murray Rothbard (The Ethics of Liberty)
“Right” has cogently and trenchantly been defined by Professor Sadowsky: “When we say that one has the right to do certain things we mean this and only this, that it would be immoral for another, alone or in combination, to stop him from doing this by the use of physical force or the threat thereof. We do not mean that any use a man makes of his property within the limits set forth is necessarily a moral use.” Sadowsky’s definition highlights the crucial distinction between a man’s right and the morality or immorality of his exercise of that right. —Murray Rothbard (The Ethics of Liberty)