Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. — Olympe de Gouges Copy Share Image
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Is the Reformed faith opposed to human rights? Yes, very much so. It is not human rights but Divine law which is… — James B. Jordan Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. How about the rights of woman, I’d like to scream… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The source of man's rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected,… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
