Quotes about Rights
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
— Thomas Jefferson
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
— Thomas Paine
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
— John Adams
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
— George Washington
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
— William Howard Taft
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
— James K. Polk
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
— John F. Kennedy
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
— Thomas Jefferson
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.
— Dennis Prager
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
— Dennis Prager
We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God
— George W. Bush
The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.
— George Washington