Alternatives Quote by Learned Hand

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

— Thomas Paine

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all…

— Patrick Henry

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be…

— Elizabeth Evatt

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

— Charles A. Reich

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping…

— Ronald Reagan

“I consider that in the current situation, it is unfitting for a representative of the people to be overzealous to the point of forgetting…

— Manuel Lempereur

The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored…

— Vaclav Havel

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

— Buzz Aldrin

“In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners”

— Ayn Rand

“Could civil liberties really be a cause, rather than just an effect? I think so. I think a society in which people can do…

— Paul Graham

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now,…

— James McGreevey