Quotes About Rights

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

As an avid hunter, outdoor enthusiast, and life member of the NRA, I understand the importance of protecting the right to keep and bear arms.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Our democratic culture does not prioritise protecting an individual's right to live life her way, especially if that is not our way or the way of the community.

We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who mean no harm.

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to shoot bullets. So what is it that's so important to shoot at?

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

Certainly I support the Constitution, and I respect people's privacy, but I also think we need to err on the side of protecting us.

People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

While I am passionately committed to protecting abortion access, I do not view it as a stand-alone issue.

Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.

We all share the same goal to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, while fully protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans.

I decided a long time ago that protecting our Second Amendment means doing so across the board, no exceptions.

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

I'm proud to cosponsor the Life at Conception Act which grants rights to babies at the moment they are conceived, and the Born Alive Protection Act, that will protect innocent lives who miraculously escape death.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.