Across the centuries men believed that they had created the ideal design for brotherhood with their fellow man. They were so convinced of their designs that they believed it gave them a sanction to take the property, liberty, and lives of others. Life on Earth requires that individuals act to achieve their goals and values and, as Aristotle noted over two millennia ago, these goals require cooperation between human beings. In order to achieve that cooperation, that commerce, that brotherhood, individuals must be free to use their life, liberty, and property while also being barred from violating that of another. Rights are moral principles that define and sanction an individual’s freedom of action in society. They exist so that we may live our lives in harmony and resolve our differences peacefully and justly. As the French thinker Frederic Bastiat once said, “it is totally impossible for me to separate the word fraternity from the word voluntary.”