rights Quotes

'Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.

Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.