Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [481-494] of 494 Individual Rights quotesIndividual Rights QuotesIndividual Rights Previous 20 quotes The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.~ George Washington It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.~ John Wayne Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.~ Henry Grady Weaver Neither the trappings of robes, nor temples of stone, nor a fixed liturgy, nor an extensive literature or history is required to meet the test of beliefs cognizable under the Constitution as religious. So far as our law is concerned, one person's religious beliefs held for one day are presumptively entitled to the same protection as the beliefs of millions which have been shared for thousands of years.~ Judge Jack B. Weinstein The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security.~ Robert Welch I want for our country enough laws to restrain me from injuring others, so that these laws will also restrain others from injuring me. I want enough government, with enough constitutional safeguards, so that this necessary minimum of laws will be applied equitably to everybody, and will be binding on the rulers as well as those ruled. Beyond that I want neither laws nor government to be imposed on our people as a means or with the excuse of protecting us from catching cold, or of seeing that we raise the right kind of crops, or of forcing us to live in the right kind of houses or neighborhoods, or of compelling us to save money or to spend it, or of telling us when or whether we can pray. I do not want government or laws designed for any other form of welfarism or paternalism, based on the premise that government knows best and can run our lives better than we can run them ourselves. And my concept of freedom, and of its overwhelming importance, is implicit in these aspirations and ideals.~ Robert Welch A person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self, family, home and state, and for lawful hunting and recreational use.~ West Virginia Constitution The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.~ Walt Whitman If you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine.~ Hank Williams Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.~ Walter E. Williams The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.~ Wendell L. Willkie The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as those of the most hated member of the community.~ A. L. Wirin Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.~ John Wooden If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.~ Virginia Woolf Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print