Quotes About Rights

I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Where liberty is, there is my country.

I will freely spend nineteen shillings in the pound to defend my right of giving or refusing the other shilling.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it; and where the habit of resisting such encroachment is not fostered, and the individual is not taught to be jealous of his rights, individuality gradually disappears and the government or State becomes the all-in-all.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.

The Second Amendment reflects the brilliance of our founders, who knew that no right is guaranteed unless we are willing to fight for it, and I remain committed to fighting for the rights of lawful gun owners as the senator for Alabama.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

We must pass immigration reform.

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

Labour accepts that the European Court of Human Rights needs reform.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Labour reforms are not anti-worker.