Quotes About Rights

I believe in the right to life.

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

We are not entitled to ALL of anything, not even ourselves... and rightfully so.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

As it has expanded, the Western state has tended to give people more rights—the right to vote, the right to education and health care and welfare. Things like a university education that a century ago were regarded as a white, male, wealthy privilege are now seen as a public service, in some cases a free entitlement, for everybody.

Just because something is useful, it does not mean we should give away freedoms to get it.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

I've always believed if you're involved even in a very small struggle - in some sort of infinity in a grain of sand - in your local neighborhood, that every action has universal implications. I believe that if I struggle for the rights of an acequia in Taos, New Mexico that the ripple effect [will spread] from that tiny struggle.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Most playwrights should observe the same constitutional rights as the Queen: to be consulted, to advise and to warn.

In the eternal balance between individual rights and community obligations, Washington believed that there were times that the national interest trumped individual self-interest.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.

Since Roe v. Wade, abortion on demand has become engrained in American society. Not only have we killed at least fifty five million Americans in the womb, and emerging from the womb (not including under-reported abortion estimates), we also now kill over 90% of all Down Syndrome babies, solely because of their disability.

Is the call for Jihad against a particular people a religious right by those calling for it, or is it a human rights violation against the people on which Jihad is declared and waged?" (Dr. John Garang, United Nations, Geneva, March 22, 1999)

Those whose First and Second Amendment rights are taken from them won't like it and will most likely fight back, leading to the "violence in the land" that Jeremiah describes. These future events will lead, in part, to the government of the Daughter of Babylon's persecution of God's people. One significant result? Many under persecution will flee the nation.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

While Tunisian women basically walk the streets free of hassle, Egyptian women suffer more abuse and harassment than women in any other Arab country, indeed, perhaps in the world. According to the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, in 2009 some 98 percent of foreign women, and 83 percent of Egyptian women, said they had experienced sexual harassment.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)