Constrain Quote by Barack Obama

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of…

— George W. Romney

“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's…

— Ayn Rand

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

[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be…

— William Rehnquist

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar…

— Roger B. Taney

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

— Paul Farmer

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

“True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.

— Murray Rothbard

The law doesn't create a right.

— Jack Kevorkian

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward