Quotes about Rights
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.
— Woodrow Wilson
Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.
— John Milton
One with the law is a majority.
— Calvin Coolidge
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
— Ronald Reagan
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
— Samuel Johnson
And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
— Ronald Reagan
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
— Michael Ignatieff
As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.
— Kevin DeYoung
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
— Herbert Hoover
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
— Victor Hugo