rights Quotes

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.