Quotes about Rights
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
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
— Tertullian
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former
— Theodore Roosevelt
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
— George W. Bush
The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!
— Norman Geisler
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.
— Theodore Roosevelt
In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
— James Madison
The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force."
— James H. Cone