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

Other quotes by Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge

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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. – Calvin Coolidge

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. – Max Planck

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Natures mandates. – Marquis de Sade

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No speech can stain what is noble by nature. – Sophocles

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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again. – Kamisese Mara

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. – Vladimir Lenin

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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. – Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anais Nin

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