Quotes about Rights
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Unjust laws aren't laws at all.
— St. Augustine
The privileges of a few do not make common law.
— Saint Jerome
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
— Glenn Beck
There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom.
— Desmond Tutu
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
— Aristotle
Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.
— George W. Bush
The only object of liberty is life.
— GK Chesterton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
— John Piper
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
— John Wooden