Quotes about Rights

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

The only object of liberty is life.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights