Rights Protection Quotes

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Our Presidents should not be able to conduct secret operations which violate our principles, jeopardize our rights, and have not been subject to the checks and balances which normally keep policies in line

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

The common good is chiefly guaranteed when personal rights and duties are maintained. The chief concern of civil authorities must therefore be to ensure that these rights are acknowledged, respected, coordinated with other rights, defended and promoted

It must not be forgotten that only a local government which recognizes and maintains inviolate the rights of all is a true self-government.

The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

At no place in this world can I yield a single French right.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.

Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

We have a First Amendment right to burn the flag as symbolic speech. The Constitution protects that right. To spend time and effort on this is ridiculous.

The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human beings, we are a party to its abuse. We must stand together to protect the rights of others.

You must find ways to make absolutely sure that such abuse of the Chinese is strictly prohibited and discontinued.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

In the United States we have always drawn this form line between the military and the police. There is a good reason for that. The military’s job is to annihilate a foreign enemy. The job of the police is to protect our rights and keep the peace.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.