Quotes About Rights

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

We want trumpets that sound like thunder, and men to act as though they were going to war with those corrupt and degrading principles that rob one of all rights, merely because he is ignorant, and of a little different color. Let us have principles that will give every one his due; and then shall wars cease, and the weary find rest.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

The principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.

The historic moment is always simple and brief: it belongs to one man and one will alone, without possibility (if it be truly ripe) of any confusion of rights. The council's surprise was their consent. They bowed themselves out of the room and also out of the story

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Consequently, as an admonition to all, he named this youngest boy States Rights Gist.

He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.