Rights Quotes
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Right Quotes
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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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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.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
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You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and have to pay those bills. People need to become aware that they have some rights, even when going up against these giant companies that try to intimidate.
Vince Megna
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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.
Subrahmanya C. Bharati
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Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Robert Nozick
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Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).
Robert Nozick
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When the government violates the people`s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
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When the government violates the people`s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them
Jason Laumark
Subject: Constitution Quotes :: Right QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.
Geoffrey Fisher
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor`s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor`s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
Carl Schurz
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
Jean Paul Getty
Subject: Business QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation
Dr. Carl Sagan
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran
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What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
Thomas Jefferson
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What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
Thomas Jefferson
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate ...
Thomas Jefferson
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The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
Thomas Jefferson
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All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
Voltaire
