Quotes About Rights

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Democracy is the best revenge.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

There is no power without justice.

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)