Quotes About Rights

Merely owning a firearm or having a CPL does not automatically make you a gun rights advocate. In fact, you don't need either.

One reason to carry a firearm is to protect yourself from the violent behavior of anti-gun folk.

You can't carry without arms.

And this is a free country. I'll say what I please to whomever I like.

the rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the destruction of the very government which protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

He exaggerates his golf scores and his handicap for the same reason he exaggerates everything. He has to. He exhibits all the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder. People with his disorder have no conscience about it. He has no sense of morality about things. He lacks empathy towards others. He's a very ill man. He doesn't get that other people have rights and feelings. Other people just don't matter to him.

The damage caused by carelessness is harmful to the entire firearms community in North America. It harms the twenty-five million hunters, competitors, and recreational shooters. It harms the fifteen million concealed-carry permit holders. It harms the 325 million citizens of the United States who believe in and honor our rights as citizens.

Opponents and supporters of abortion rights may find fault with my proposal that a pineal DMT release at forty-nine days after conception marks the entrance of the spirit into the fetus.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Many men of 1972 used the new "women's freedom" as an excuse for brutish behavior.

Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.

Same-sex marriage isn't a gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";

We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation.

Among the most influential of these was George Mason, who wrote the Virginia constitution and its Declaration of Rights. Responding to the insistent demands of Mason and several others, as well as to similar voices outside the Convention, Mason's fellow Virginian, James Madison, drafted ten amendments that were ratified in 1789–90 by eleven states, more than a sufficient number for their adoption.

The Bill of Rights slipped quietly into the Constitution and passed from sight and public consciousness until given a new and very different life by the Supreme Court more than a century later.

True freedom depends on local self-government, effective access of the people to their individual rights. Sometimes I question whether the United States has not reached the limit of size under which the people of a nation can have a real voice in its government.

them. In this way, civic trust is self-enforcing and self-perpetuating. As James Madison put it when advocating the Bill of Rights, the mere knowledge of its existence would "extinguish from the bosom of every member of the community any apprehensions, that there are those among his countrymen who wish to deprive them of the liberty for which they valiantly fought and honorably bled.

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight.

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight. The

when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with all this, they're told the First Amendment doesn't apply.

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.