Quotes About Rights

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean threatening the freedom of others.

Injustice happened to animals as they born an animal, you are born as man what else do you need ?

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.