Quotes About Rights

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."

One with the law is a majority.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

No man may make another free.

They have rights who dare defend them.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.