Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 263 Rights quotesRights QuotesRights Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes They: The makers of the Constitution: conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis [The founding fathers] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be left alone -- the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.~ Justice William J. Brennan The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.~ Patrick J. Buchanan 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. There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.~ Justice Warren E. Burger All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.~ 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 A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.~ John C. Calhoun Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man.~ Thomas Carlyle Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins. ~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.~ William Ellery Channing It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.~ Shirley Chisholm Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.~ Sir Winston Churchill We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.~ Winston Churchill A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.~ Henry Clay Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.~ Henry Steele Commager Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print