Quotes About Rights

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."

The right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Whatever rights or activities may be "fundamental" under the Privilege and Immunities Clause, we ware not persuaded, and hold that elk hunting by nonresidents in Montana is not one of them.

Constitutional rights do not always have easily ascertainable boundaries, and controversy over the meaning of our Nation's most majestic guarantees frequently has been turbulent. As judges, however, we are sworn to uphold the law even when its content gives rise to bitter dispute.

This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Each provision of the Constitution is important, and I cannot subscribe to a doctrine of unlimited absolutism for the First Amendment at the cost of downgrading other provisions.

It's just as unrealistic to merge your property as it is to try to merge your minds. And  property  is  very  important.  The  control  of  your  own  property  is  the  most tangible expression of your freedom.

Ik [ben] voorstander van abortus tot het veertigste levensjaar, en van euthanasie vanaf het veertigste.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

God-given right to live as they pleased.

Just because the power is out doesn't mean we unplug the constitution.

Under Saddam's ruthless regime, where human rights barely nudged the moral barometer, animals didn't rate at all.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

I am waiting for a reconstructed Mayflower to reach America with its picture story and tv rights sold in advance to the natives

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

If "piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if "if value, then right" is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of "big media" today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation's pirates join this generation's country club-until now.

Freedom is without a doubt the greatest blessing we have in America so let us protect it and defend it with all our hearts and all our energies.

All men are born free: just not for long.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.