Quotes About Rights

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Every woman is entitled to an opinion and the right to express that opinion-especially to the man she's married to.

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.