Quotes About Rights

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices. { Letter to his son and future president, John Quincy Adams , 16 June 1816 }

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenseless--the men with small cottages and large families--the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week--these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

a "free People think they have a right to an Explanation of the Circumstances which give rise to the Necessity under which they suffer.

It's harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought rather utterly to defy than to obey them whenever they are so restive and wish to spoil God of his rights, and, as it were, to seize upon his throne and draw him down from heaven.

Your freedom and mine cannot be seperated

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Law and justice are not the same.

Suddenly, it seemed as if David was surrounded by short, unhappy men muttering about "rights" and "liberties" and having enough of "this sort of thing.

the law cannot respect the conscience of flesh-and-blood human beings unless it also recognizes conscience claims brought by the corporations they form.

twenty-three years of RFRAs to produce anarchy,

the ultimate objective of antidiscrimination law is not to punish haters (not all discriminators are haters) but to ensure equal access in the public sphere. This

T)here is no right not to be offended." (p. 237)

In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American as apple pie. Against this checkered backdrop, the U.S. Constitution stands as a remarkable achievement.

Do not let the focus on bakers and florists obscure this point: It is currently legal in most states to fire people for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender; to refuse to rent them apartments or hotel rooms; even to refuse to tow their cars or repair their furnaces. Should this change? Anderson and Girgis argue that it should not. 4.3.5

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.