Quotes about Rights
I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.
— Payal Rohatgi
Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
— David Starkey
Leftists hate the Second Amendment and our freedoms. They don't want us Americans to be able to defend ourselves, families, and children or our country and rights.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?
— Francine Rivers
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
— Jesse Jackson
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
— Abraham Lincoln
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
— Ronald Reagan
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
— Ronald Reagan
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
— Ronald Reagan
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
— Lucille Ball