Quotes about Rights
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
— Abraham Lincoln
All men are created equal.
— Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
— Aristotle
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
— Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
— Ayn Rand
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
— Tertullian
Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former
— Theodore Roosevelt
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
— George W. Bush