Quotes About Rights

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...

Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of rights, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice.

The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.

Liberty once lost, is lost forever.

Use your liberty in Christ to set others free, not to assert your own rights.

Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

The Constitution guarantees free speech, but it doesn't guarantee listeners.

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others; it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

We are being brainwashed to give up our constitutional right to bear arms; constrained to give powers to secret agencies not accountable to Congress and extended powers to the president that would have appalled our Founding Fathers and the generation that followed, all in the name of "fighting terrorism.

Life is full of happy and sad moments, smiling and moody faces ,rights and wrongs, loves and hates. But what a wonderful LIFE it is.

Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

Death and madness are his only mistresses.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.