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Quotes About Rights

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
~ Tacitus
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.
~ Pat Derby
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
~ David Allan Coe
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
~ Lord Hailsham
I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.
~ Ron Paul
Free thought, free speech and a free press.
~ Anne Royall
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.
~ Noam Chomsky
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
~ Eric Hoffer
Freedom for the working class!
~ Mother Jones
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
~ Bertrand Russell
We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
~ Cornel West
Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
~ Julian Assange
Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
~ Hugo Black
There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
~ George Takei
Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.
~ Thomas Sowell
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
~ Ronald Reagan
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
~ James Madison
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.
~ C. Vann Woodward
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
~ Unknown
Freedom requires guns.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero