Quotes About Rights

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Surprisingly, Stannis smiled at that. "You're bold enough to be a Stark. Yes, I should have come sooner. If not for my Hand, I might not have come at all. Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

We'll have music, such sweet music, and wine, heh, the red will run, and we'll put some wrongs aright.

Go tell it to the white men! They're lookin' for Indians that stay proud even when they hurt... just so long's they don't ask for their rights!" (113)

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

As my father once explained to me, our "rights" are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people's democracy here in America, as great as the people of this country can be, but also as fallible, we must stay ever vigilant in the face of any "tyranny" of the majority, no matter the stated objective.

The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

A free people ought...to be armed

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.