Any Quote by Adam Ferguson

The supreme issue, involving all the others, is the encroachment of the few upon the rights of the many.

— Robert La Folette

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.

— Robert La Folette

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

— Earl Warren

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the…

— Voltaire

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

— Harold Laski