Quotes About Rights

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The notion of a world government to defend our rights would have sent the founding fathers running for their muskets.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Obamacare is not about health care. Obamacare is about the expansion of government and the total loss of freedom.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.