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
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
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
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
“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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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