Abraham Lincoln Quotes

There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.

Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world. Such a truth is woman's right to equal liberty with man. She was born with it. It was hers before she comprehended it. It is prescribed upon all the powers and faculties of her soul, and no custom, law nor usage can ever destroy it.

Every citizen has, under the law, a sacred and inviolable right to personal liberty and to the possession of his goods

All men are born free. Some are certainly endowed with grater intelligence, stronger will or a greater portion of wealth than others, but that gives them—the cleverer, the stronger, the richer—not the least right to rule over the duller, the weaker, the poorer. God, the Father of us all, has made mankind, without exception, to be happy, and so the obligation is laid on us, as far as is possible, to make each other happy.

I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you like and to believe what you believe and to say what you want to say.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

All men & women are created equal

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

All men are created equal.

Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and consequently have one common right. No reason can be assigned why one man should exercise any power or preeminence over his fellow-creatures more than another; unless they have voluntarily vested him with it.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.