Quotes About Rights

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

deserved a voice?

They have fooled the world. Or else the world doesn't give a damn. What confounds me is that no one seems to ask what right they have to put us in prisons at all. The assumption seems to be that it's all right for Jews to be jailed and treated like dogs, provided they aren't murdered.

the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Delay of justice is injustice.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!