“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales 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
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
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws… — John Goodwin Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of… — Ann Robinson 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
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that… — Hjalmar Schacht 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
![“[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.” quote by Antonin Scalia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3f/antonin-scalia-2855_constitution_the-government-has-room-to-scale-back-in_2019191.jpg)
![“In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.” quote by Dick Durbin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/601/dick-durbin-3181_american-citizens_in-going-too-far-they-presidents-have-ta_2774936.jpg)
![“All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].” quote by William J. Brennan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/553/william-j-brennan-15212_amendments_all-ideas-having-even-the-slightest-rede_3076253.jpg)
