Quotes About Rights

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

It was the Cause. In the face of a Great Cause, the individual was always the first to suffer. The Great Cause consumed individuals as a Southern Plains tornado consumed trees. It did not matter that the Cause was in the name of humanity itself—any such mass ideology, even that conducted in the name of individual rights and freedoms, would sacrifice anyone and anything to further its own grand purpose.

I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the race,— From generation unto generation fitted, And shifted round from place to place. Reason becomes a sham, Beneficence a worry: Thou art a grandchild, therefore woe to thee! The right born with us, ours in verity,

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

No one is pro-abortion.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

One cannot have a right to life without the right to defend it with deadly force.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

Free speech is life itself.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.