Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 494 Individual Rights quotesIndividual Rights QuotesIndividual Rights Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes [It is] a natural Right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the [English] Bill of rights, to keep arms for their own defense; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of Society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.~ Boston Evening Post Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.~ Charles Bradlaugh The most important political office is that of private citizen.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights ...~ Nathaniel Branden All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].~ Justice William J. Brennan If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.~ Justice William J. Brennan The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.~ Justice William J. Brennan We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times.~ Harry Browne We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.~ James Burgh We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.~ Edmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.~ Edmund Burke The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.~ Edmund Burke It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.~ Edmund Burke After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.~ George Herbert Walker Bush “Due process,” a standard that arose in our system of law and stemmed from the desire to provide rational procedure and fair play, is equally indispensable in every other kind of social or political enterprise.~ Edmond Cahn When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.~ Al Capone America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.~ Jimmy Carter Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print