Quotes About Rights

I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

Alabama will continue to fight for life so that every unborn child is protected.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.