Quotes About Rights

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

No one has a right to happiness.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

I wanna end the international embarrassment of the United States of America being the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

All across the Middle East in the streets, people are demanding democracy. It's amazing. The only way in America you get people to get worked up like that is to threaten to give them health care.

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.