Endurance Quote by Lysander Spooner

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

Rights are in the power of the people.

— Ken Starr

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point…

— John Howard

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms to dissent…

— David Wong

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

Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that…

— Edward Bennett Williams

“And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They’re explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government.…

— Thom Hartmann

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

— Francis Hutcheson

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill…

— William O. Douglas

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely…

— Edward Snowden