Best Individual Rights Sayings
66 Individual Rights quotes by 48 unique authors
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But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute,…
— Clarence Thomas
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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be…
— Michael Sandel
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The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
— Steven Pinker
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Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody…
— Ayn Rand
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My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to…
— Michael Sandel
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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks…
— Heather Brooke
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The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and…
— Dave Brat
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We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an…
— David Blunkett
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
— B.F. Skinner
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The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual…
— Trent Lott
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Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
— Richard Scaife
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Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one…
— Unknown Author
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Today Americans 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 Kissinger
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It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's…
— Ann Robinson
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The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot.…
— Jello Biafra
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