The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The individual rights of many are at stake. The collective rights of many peoples to their culture are also at stake. I… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
“I believe it was Napoleon who first sensed the ease with which, in modern society, the illusion of freedom can be created… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power… — Lucan Copy Share Image
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“I support the right of the individual, the right of the most individuals to get what they want. That is all majority… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society -… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries.… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Those Russkies won’t put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
How do we have a society that maximizes peace, civility and well-being for everyone? How do we have a system of individual… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The simple truth hit Shiva: if the entire society carried out its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
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