Best Their Rights Quotes
158 Their Rights quotes by 116 unique authors
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This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive…
— John Dickinson
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If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be…
— Calvin Coolidge
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In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood,…
— James Madison
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If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about…
— Unknown Author
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We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.
— Harry Belafonte
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I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care…
— Ed Koch
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
— Zadie Smith
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There was a time when women social activists asked men to stand up for their rights, but this time we will do it by ourselves.…
— Malala Yousafzai
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I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the…
— Robert Mugabe
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To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask…
— Tom Regan
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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which…
— Pat Robertson
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What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or…
— John Brown
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Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction…
— Walter Lippmann
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