Constitution Quote by Walter E. Williams

The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership…

— Amartya Sen

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of…

— Gerrit Smith

Our rights to live and to love each other, those rights are greater than any other right in the Constitution, period.

— Eric Swalwell

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

— Ayn Rand

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine…

— Russell Kirk

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years…

— Ayn Rand

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise…

— David O. McKay

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

— Paul Farmer

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his…

— Robert Ringer

“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

Rights are in the power of the people.

— Ken Starr