Quotes About Rights

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Women have no government.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'