Quotes About Rights

We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

No conditions justify torture.

There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the rights of freeborn Britons. I suppose a lot of those Tories would have been what you might call 'one-nation Tories.' That tradition has died in the Conservative party.

Maintaining pay parity is very important, and I am in total favour of it.

Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper, but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state beneath.

I think the Americans have it right. The idea of having guns is essentially to protect yourself from a totalitarian government.

We do not want to see a Hong Kong that enjoys freedoms on paper but whose autonomous status conceals the workings of a totalitarian state.

that all men are… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That is, they recognized that their rights derived from God, not government, and

limitations on government to guard against its natural tendency to expand at the expense of individual liberties. They reserved for the states those rights not granted to the federal government and distributed federal power among three separate, coequal branches of government.

the left seeks to redefine liberty as selfishness.

Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

government is but an instrument of the people, its powers forever subordinate to their rights as human beings.

the Bill of Rights is a triumphant proclamation of sacred truths upon which freedom depends and a heroic defense of the individual against the majority, subject as it is to demagoguery and deception.

THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE FIRST AMENDMENT Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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

Thus, we must be insistent on not only our right to express our views, but others to do the same (even if we don't agree with them), lest we all lose our freedom to speak our minds. Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.

Let's also not forget the overarching theme of the new direction for America, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness...

Through censorship, our opinions and attitudes will become prescribed by the authorities, with dissenting views labeled as heretical and punishable by law. If this happens, we will surely see the dissolution of the rest of our rights accelerate, unhindered by public scrutiny and outrage.