Rights Quotes

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon" "Government has no other end but the preservation of property" "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom" "Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?" "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness You have to catch it yourself" "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so" "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." "Where annual elections end where slavery begins" "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind" "I’m a girl, and I have the right to be proud of that." "No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation" "It is right to give every man his due" "There are no rights. There are only privileges." "There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people" "To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity." "What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."