Quotes about Rights
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
— JRR Tolkien
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
— Thomas Jefferson
We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.
— Ronald Reagan
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
— Cicero
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
— Frederick Douglass
If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?
— Fannie Lou Hamer
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
— Thomas Paine
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
— Thomas Jefferson
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
— Harry S. Truman