Quotes About Rights

I don't care what anyone thinks. I only care about the law. I only care about the constitution.

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It's the first article in the constitution. 'Access to information shall not be abridged.

I think it's very simple that the whole idea of debating whether or not Negroes should defend themselves is an insult.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man.

Laws are made to free people, not to bind them

Or do you realize that when any freedom is destroyed for others, it is destroyed for you, too?

marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

By-and-by we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

we shall take turns, for marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. You'll go on as you begin, and Amy will rule you all the days of your life.

Don't you want to be a U.S. citizen?" "What?" said Thomas. "We are citizens." "Vote? You already can vote?" "Sure, back in 1924 we got the vote. After the black man, after the women. But we got the vote.

I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves

May 12, 1784, the state legislature passed a law depriving most Loyalists of the vote for the next two years.

What also gave the book its force was Lloyd's political message: "Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Hamilton, using the pen name "Civis" in a newspaper piece of February 23, 1791, penned the following telling sarcasm to Madison and Jefferson: "As to the negroes, you must be tender upon that subject. . . . Who talk most about liberty and equality . . . ? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

To watch the progress of such endeavours is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against the encroachments of power. This then is a right of the utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.

I will not hesitate to exhaust the powers thus vested in the Executive…for the purpose of securing to all citizens of the United States the peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution and laws. —ULYSSES S. GRANT, Proclamation, May 3, 1871

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.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. -- Ronald Reagan I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home." -- Ronald Reagan

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.