Quotes About Rights

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.