I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
You see, what makes us different than the rest of the world fundamentally is our American respect and legal appreciation of individual… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. — Ibn Warraq 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
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
“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
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, Bloomberg has repeatedly shown blatant disrespect for individual rights and civil liberties. The first thing that comes to mind… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution gave history its first instance of modern leftist illiberalism -- an embrace of tyranny in the name of the… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest fears is family decline.There’s an old Chinese saying that “prosperity can never last for three generations.” I’ll bet… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. — Homer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image