Quotes about Rights
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
- Ronald Reagan
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
- Ernestine Rose
The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.
- Mike Pence
The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
- Mother Teresa
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
- Anonymous
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
- James Madison
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.
- Todd Young
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
- Ronald Reagan
I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.