Quotes About Rights

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

Born free. Taxed to death.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

As a bird has the right to sing, so shall every human being have the right to think and express thoughts.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.