Quotes About Rights

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

All the ingredients were there: mechanization, innovation, property rights, and capital.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

looked up at the crucifix over the altar, and slowly his expression grew hard and demanding. What's your part in this monkey business? Will you answer? Do you want to call a lawyer? Shall I read you your rights? Take it easy. I'm your friend. I can get you protection. Just answer me a few little questions, all right?

Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

How did orders, whether federal, state, or local, meant to protect public health ever come to be seen as a restriction of rights or liberty? It happens when freedom becomes license unbounded by concern for others.

Some to the common pulpits, and cry out,"Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!"

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

America, to me, is freedom.

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

if we lust for ease and comfort today—caring only for ourselves, stopping halfway, and giving up our rights in the matter of pursuing the Lord—we will not be able to recover those rights; neither will there be any compensation for them. This is an eternal loss.

Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.

Mas o que é a loucura? O que vale a vida de uma pessoa? Porventura a tua tem mais valor que a minha ou a minha menos que a do teu amigo? - Será que tens mais direito à vida que o homem de que salvei?

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.