Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert H. Humphrey

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

Ellen DeGeneres

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

H. L. Mencken

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

H. L. Mencken

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

Aberjhani

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

A. Whitney Brown

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

Adrian Cronauer

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Adam Lambert

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Cliff Stearns

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.