The only protection of every citizen from such deprivation of rights is a strict adherence to the Bill of Rights by everyone for everyone. This should be self-evident but the danger of erosion of rights stems largely from the fact that so many citizens of the majority, who have never been deprived of any of these rights, find it difficult to understand what the deprivation of them means in the lives of others.more Earl Warren quotes |
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.more George Washington quotes |
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.more Daniel Webster quotes |
If the Union was formed by accession of States then
the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.more Daniel Webster quotes |
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.more Daniel Webster quotes |
Whatever the issue might be, whether it’s mass surveillance, no-knock raids, or the right to freely express one’s views about the government, we’ve moved into a new age in which the rights of the citizenry are being treated as a secondary concern by the White House, Congress, the courts and their vast holding of employees, including law enforcement officials.more John W. Whitehead quotes |
Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.more James Wilson quotes |
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.more Woodrow Wilson quotes |
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom -- is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.more Woodrow Wilson quotes |
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One byproduct of individualism is benevolence -- a general attitude of good will towards one's neighbors and fellow human beings. Benevolence is impossible in a society where people violate each others' rights.more Glenn Woiceshyn quotes |
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.more John Wooden quotes |
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