Creature Quote by Lysander Spooner

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like.…

— Lysander Spooner

Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place…

— Immanuel Kant

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

— Ro Khanna

If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights…

— Tony Benn

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others.

— Frederick Romilly

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced…

— Thomas Jefferson

[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check…

— James Madison

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

— Christopher Dodd

The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as…

— Lysander Spooner

Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if…

— Henry Kissinger

“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

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover