Demand Quote by Walter Lippmann

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me…

— Martin Van Buren

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

— William Ernest Hocking

“My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.”

— Joe Biden

I have my principles.

— Seve Ballesteros

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

— Sasha Velour

I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as…

— Emma Goldman

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

— John Milton

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“I shall remind you that"rights" are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that are derived…

— Ayn Rand

And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it…

— Thomas Paine

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Victoria Woodhull