Aristocracy Quote by George Washington

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the…

— Anonymous

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of…

— Thomas Jefferson

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be…

— Noam Chomsky

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life…

— Mother Teresa

If we set the precedent that a government can use their royal prerogative to take away people's human rights, that is taking us into…

— Gina Miller

“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and…

— David McCullough

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in…

— John Milton

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally…

— Ayn Rand

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

— Mother Teresa

In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary…

— Thomas Paine

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored…

— Aung San Suu Kyi