Individual Rights Quotes

"The rights of the people come from God, not the government" "I am personally against any kind of legislation that restricts individual freedoms." "The more laws, the less justice" "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property" "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist" "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them" "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." "That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity" "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself" "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used" "Freedom – to walk free and own no superior." "It’s a fickle thing; fame. But I value my privacy above all things." "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom" "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" "Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions" "Privacy is a fundamental human right" "We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties"