Quotes about Rights

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

People need security of the mind. Why do they want democracy? Because it can give them freedom and security in a balanced way.

Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.

We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it's too late.

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

We need a new approach to reducing gun violence. Rather than demonizing gun owners, perhaps we should focus on cutting funds from the gun profiteers. Instead of concentrating on the issue of rights, maybe we should approach it as an issue of conscience.

In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.