Quotes about Rights
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
- George Washington
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
- Abraham Lincoln
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
- Ayn Rand
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
- Thomas Paine
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
- Abraham Lincoln
All men are created equal.
- Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
- Aristotle
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
- Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
- Ayn Rand