Quotes About Rights

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.

As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

People have the right to say what they want to.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

Nobody wants justice.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people we want to love.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

I'm quite sure that no court is telling anybody that they cannot say whatever they want to say.