Quotes About Rights

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.