Quotes About Rights

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

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

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The great object is that every man be armed.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.