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Individual Rights Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
- Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
- America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,'…
- There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
- America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
- The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not…
- Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It…
- Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from…
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function…
- The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
- 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…
More Individual Rights Quotes
- The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,… — Ronald Reagan
- Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand
- I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
- Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right… — John Ashcroft
- If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Unknown Author
- We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly… — Jonathan D. Morris
- Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison
- He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce… — Judy Woodruff
- The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence
- Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon… — Lawrence Kohlberg