Individual Rights Quotes
66 quotes by 49 authors
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they…
— Ronald Reagan
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
— Ayn Rand
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The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
— Ayn Rand
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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
— Clarence Thomas
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Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and…
— John Ashcroft
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.…
— Alberto J. Mora
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We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the name…
— Jonathan D. Morris
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Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
— James Madison
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He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual…
— Judy Woodruff
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The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.
— Gerry Spence
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Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole…
— Lawrence Kohlberg
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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
— Ayn Rand
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I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose…
— Murray Rothbard
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Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of…
— William McKinley
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Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become…
— Rudolf Rocker
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We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for…
— Jim Garrison
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Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should…
— Bennie Thompson
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By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the…
— John Hospers
Who Wrote These Individual Rights Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 66 Individual Rights Quotes, led by these top contributors: