Quotes about Rights

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.

wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

A free people ought...to be armed.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

One with the law is a majority.