Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
“Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“if the nation were to be stable, individual rights had to be exercised according to rules that all people could understand and… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and… — Stephen Hadley Copy Share Image
“On Election Day, we select our representatives by secret ballot, and we choose our candidates based on their ability to protect our… — Andrew P. Napolitano Copy Share Image
“A name is the first and final marker of individual rights, one fixed part of the ever changing human world. A name… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
[T]rue socialism must be voluntary - not coerced. Even in the most complete system of society we can conceive the individual must… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Certainly the plight of such countries as Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have received a lot of attention recently13 due to… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights. — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
“If the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybodys's rights would… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
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