Rights Against Quotes
- 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
- It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden,… — Pope John Paul II
- We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human… — Jan Egeland
- One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people… — George Meany
- The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down… — David Boies
- All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… — Lysander Spooner