Quotes About Rights

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt)

I shall remind you thatrights are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that are derived from man's nature as a rational being and represent a necessary condition of his particular mode of survival. I shall remind you also that the right to life is the source of all rights, including the right to property.

If you believe that you have the right to force me—use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.

Every human is allowed to be sentimental about a spring day in New York. It's our birthright.

I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

Abortions, gay marriage, legalized pot, all of that should be decided by the states. Whatever happened to the governmental powers reserved to the states? Let's declare ourselves independent, give the people of Oklahoma the right to decide which laws they want to live under, and tell Barry Soetoro where to go and what to do to himself when he gets there.

Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.

Somewhat surprisingly, this includes a form of electronic personhood, to ensure the rights and responsibilities for the most capable and advanced AI.

Guys, gals, now hear this: No one wants to take away your hunting rifles. No one wants to take away your shotguns. No one wants to take away your revolvers, and no one wants to take away your automatic pistols, as long as said pistols hold no more than ten rounds. If you can't kill a home invader (or your wife, up in the middle of the night to get a snack from the fridge) with ten shots, you need to go back to the local shooting range.

You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

People fight harder for power than they do for freedom despite freedom is power.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the people for liberty.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

como es que tienes el derecho a destrozarme la vida, quise preguntarle, pero yo no tengo ningun poder en la tuya?

She doesn't know what to say. She feels quietly furious with him, while conscious that she has no right to be. What has he ever promised her, after all?