Quotes About Rights

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.