Quotes About Rights

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

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Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

India knows that the subject of Land is not with the Central Government and the Centre does not require lands. All rights relating to land are with the states.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.