Living things Quote by Thom Hartmann

“Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.”

— Jean Tirole

“The Constitution seeks to protect the basic rights of the people and the spirit of human liberty against encroachment by the state. Hence”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever…

— Abraham Lincoln

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.

— Vera Jourova

“if our rights are not unalienable, if they don’t come from a source higher than ourselves, then they’re malleable at the will of the…

— Mark R. Levin

“Furthermore, we can understand those basic freedoms as rights partly because we can understand the reciprocal duty to respect them. My right to life…

— Roger Scruton

“The Constitution doesn’t give us rights: it restrains government from infringing on rights we acquire at birth by virtue of being human beings, “natural…

— Thom Hartmann

“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

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

“If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist.”

— ELW-Reta Barnes

We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that…

— Malcolm X