Quotes About Rights

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

But Jack was not Polish scum of the earth, barefoot and chained to the land, or even French scum of the earth, in wooden clogs and in thrall to the priest and the tax-farmer, but English scum of the earth in good boots, equipped with certain God-given rights that were (as rumor had it) written down in a Charter somewhere, and armed with a loaded gun.

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.

is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.

Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others?

Many people, who defend our cherished freedoms as citizens of the US, will argue against mandated masks, helmet laws, gun laws, seatbelts, and against anything else that constricts a person from living life the way they want. Odd that many of these same people will maintain or seek laws to restrict another person's free expression of their gender identity.

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

The least free people in a free society are people like us who have a sworn duty to defend the constitution.

Americans, they'll have a legal means to recover

Part of what has made America unique in this world is our belief, set forth in our founding document, that our rights come from our Creator, not from the government. Thus, our nation's belief in God checks the growth of government and helps keep us free.

However, as Franklin warned in the New-England Courant in 1722, "in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."9