Quotes About Rights

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.