Quotes About Rights

'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.

Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.

Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.

Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not a right, any more than they have the right to shield their children from healthcare or medicine.

No one should be denied healthcare in America because of where they live.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

If a doctor tells me, 'Hey, that's it, and this is how it is,' and I don't buy that, then I think I have the right to disagree with you.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Police have two rights that even the president does not have, the right to take liberty and to take life. Those are dear to America. And we must ensure that the highest level of scrutiny and standard goes to anyone who is given that right.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

I suspect there is nothing a man can be so grateful for as that to which he has the most right. There

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.