1,033 Quotes About Rights

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill.