Quotes about Rights

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.

On the fundamental dignity of the human person, there can be no relenting!

Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are "We the people," its most important principle, freedom.