Alexander Hamilton Quotes About Natural Rights

• [If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Race, People

• Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wise, Men, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.43

• De esta ley, que depende de los derechos naturales de la humanidad, el ser supremo dio la existencia al hombre, junto con los medios de preservar y beatificar esa existencia. Lo dotó de facultades racionales, con la ayuda de las cuales, discernir y perseguir tales cosas, como eran consistentes con su deber e interés, y lo invistió con un derecho inviolable a la libertad personal, y la seguridad personal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Malos, Hombres, Derechos

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). "The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...", p.76

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