Quotes about Rights
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
- Wendell Berry
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan
In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
- Dag Hammarskjold
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
- Henry David Thoreau
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
- Winston Churchill
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- Ayn Rand
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
- Thomas Jefferson
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
- Thomas Jefferson
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
- Thomas Paine