Clear Quote by Julius Nyerere

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you....…

— Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between…

— William Hazlitt

The Declaration is a magnificent document.

— Paul Gillmor

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed…

— Abraham Lincoln

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is…

— Henry George

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man

— John Adams

“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it…

— Thomas Paine

“The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure is proved…

— Edmund Burke

I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

— James Madison