Equal Quote by Earl Warren

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right...

— Barack Obama

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

— Benito Mussolini

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the…

— Mary McCarthy

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

— Edison Haines

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

— Lawrence Auster

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

— Anonymous

But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

— Harold Laski

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights,…

— Edmund Burke