Quotes about rig
rights government citizens
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history. Allen Weinstein
rights movement window
Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them. Ann Coulter
rights civil-rights legislation
It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation Allen West
rights conflict humans
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. Abraham Lincoln
rights tyrants justice
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. Abraham Lincoln
rights government political
Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. Alexander Hamilton
rights world should
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
rights law wealth
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. Alfred Marshall
rights use benefits
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. Alfred Marshall
rights conflict dare
What rights are those that dare not resist for them? Alfred Lord Tennyson
rights healthy independence
Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948. Albert Einstein
rights purpose bills
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS. Alexander Hamilton
rights race people
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that, and cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifest violation of justice. Alexander Hamilton
rights usurpers resistance
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. Alexander Hamilton
rights neutrality adequate
The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral. Alexander Hamilton
rights done bills
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Alexander Hamilton
rights government law
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make and execute the laws with rigour, than to guarding against encroachments upon the rights of the community. As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people. Alexander Hamilton
rights agriculture giving
The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its rights and interests: and the latter facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state. Alexander Hamilton
rights people citizens
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. Alexander Hamilton
rights practice justice
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority .... Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing. Alexander Hamilton
rights long together
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together. Dorothy Height
rights support facts
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear. Dwight D. Eisenhower
rights long letters
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom. Dwight D. Eisenhower
rights personality support
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
rights want peace-and-happiness
All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal. Dalai Lama
rights perspective needs
I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted. Dalai Lama
rights people development
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace. Dalai Lama
rights justice dollars
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. Dick Gregory
rights white black
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. Dick Gregory
rights race different
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race. Desmond Tutu
rights challenges earth
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. Desmond Tutu
rights fundamentals humans
Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. Desmond Tutu
rights lost apartheid
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong. Desmond Tutu