"Natural rights [are] the objects for the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”

“I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.”

“For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

“Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.”

“Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.”

“Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.”

“Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.”

“I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it's a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.”

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”