Quotes about Rights

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.

On the fundamental dignity of the human person, there can be no relenting!

Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are "We the people," its most important principle, freedom.

The denial of emotion is a terrible thing; what takes time is learning that the positive path is the education of emotion, not it's uncritical indulgence, which actually locks us far more firmly in our mutual isolation. Likewise, the denial of rights is a terrible thing; and what takes time to learn is that the opposite of oppression is not a wilderness of litigation and reparation but the nurture of concrete, shared respect.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Success is the power to acquire whatever one demands of life without violating the rights of others.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Haylin was given a good talking-to by the headmaster and made to write a paper about workers' rights, which he considered a privilege rather than a punishment. He was obligated to write ten pages, and handed in a tome of nearly fifty pages instead, duly footnoted, quoting from Thomas Paine and FDR. He couldn't wait for the next decade. Everything would change in the sixties, he told Franny. And, if they were lucky, they would then be free.