Unalienable rights

Unalienable, a word we don’t use in everyday English, simply means “not capable of being sold or transferred.”

Unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, are natural and absolute rights that exist whether or not government exists or “allows” us to have them. They are as natural as air and water, and as vital to our existence. Whenever people are deprived of liberty, their bodies and spirits wither just as a plant droops and eventually dies without water.

We cannot flourish without our unalienable rights. They are our heritage, our endowment from our Creator.

"Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government,and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment." Ronald Reagan