Quotes about Rights
We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.
- Steven Pressfield
In each and every election, it's your rights, it's your freedoms, it's your interests that are on the ballot.
- Todd Young
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Since God created man with certain unalienable rights, and man, in turn, created government to help secure and safeguard those rights, it follows that man is superior to the creature which he created. Man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around. Even the non-believer can appreciate the logic of this relationship.
- Ezra Taft Benson
President David O. McKay declared: "No greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this Republic and of neighboring Republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States." (Conference Report, April 1950, p. 37.)
- Ezra Taft Benson
We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
- Billy Graham
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage,—the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
- Alexander Hamilton
Abortion is clearly wrong.
- Jordan Peterson
The Left has pushed immorality to the point we have so-called 'same-sex marriage' and 'transgender' nonsense trampling the rights of Christians.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
- Sojourner Truth