Quotes about Rights
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
- Calvin Coolidge
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
- Ronald Reagan
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
- Mahatma Gandhi
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
- John Adams
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
- Max Lucado
Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.
- Max Lucado
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- George Washington
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- James Madison
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
- Barack Obama
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.
- St. Francis Of Assisi