Quotes About Rights

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.

The American Founders recognized that the moment the government is authorized to start leveling the material possessions of the rich in order to have an "equal distribution of goods," the government thereafter has the power to deprive any of the people of their "equal" rights to enjoy their lives, liberties, and property.

The Founders believed these same principles would work for any nation. The key was using the government to protect equal rights, not to provide equal things.

Danger of Losing Constitutional Rights Furthermore, the Founders knew from experience that the loss of freedom through the gradual erosion of Constitutional principles is not always so obvious that the people can readily detect it. Madison stated: "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.... This danger ought to be wisely guarded against."5

The Founders also warned that the only way for the nation to prosper was to have equal protection of "rights," and not allow the government to get involved in trying to provide equal distribution of "things.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.

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I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

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

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.