Quotes About Rights

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

My main fight is for freedom and equality.

Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.