Quote by Calvin Coolidge
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. – Calvin Coolidge

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. – Author Unknown

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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that were looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. – William Shatner

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