Any Quote by Caleb Cushing

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon…

— Caleb Cushing

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States,…

— Caleb Cushing

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this…

— James Otis

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

— Alan Dershowitz

Our Second Amendment rights are not up for negotiation.

— Greg Gianforte

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and…

— Caleb Cushing

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms;…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

— Merle Miller

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced…

— Charles Edward Merriam