Quotes about Rights
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
- Alexander Hamilton
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
- Ronald Reagan
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
- George Washington
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
- Thomas Jefferson
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.
- Ronald Reagan
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
- Ronald Reagan
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
- George Washington
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
- James Madison
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
- Thomas Jefferson