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Individual Rights Quotes by Michael Sandel
- 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…
- My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to…
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