Quotes About Rights

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.