Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks…

The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to…

— Penn Jillette

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and…

— Stephen Hadley

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance,…

— Nelson Mandela

It's healthy to have differing opinions in a democracy, but we have to respect each other and challenge ourselves to do better - to…

— Jason Collins

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not…

— Omar Bongo

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons…

— Bob Menendez

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

— Penn Jillette

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

— Ayn Rand

The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the individual person…

— Alan Bock

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and…

— Brian Cox

The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the…

— Albert J. Nock

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban…

— Wayne LaPierre