Quotes About Rights

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them!

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.

The Second Amendment isn't about duck hunting or target shooting.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?