Quotes About Rights

Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them.

Without freedom, no one really has a name.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, w

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important

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

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.