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They
[the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine
rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American
faith.
-- Dwight
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The
right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual
purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise
of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character
and potentialities as a human being.
-- Thomas I. Emerson
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They
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin
Franklin |
The
whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large
or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as
unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
-- Albert Gallatin
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“Rights
that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”
-- Mohandas
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Civil liberties
victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
-- Ira
Glasser
Make
men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows
as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of
opinion.
-- William Godwin
The
greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm
to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
-- Justice Arthur Joseph
Goldberg
I am
the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
-- Horace Greeley
"With every civil right there
has to be a corresponding civil obligation."
-- Edison Haines
In
a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for
religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests,
and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.
-- Alexander Hamilton
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"There
is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and
human rights."
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None
of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor.
America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear
to say it.
-- Hubert
Humphrey |
The
first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their
own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere
by violence with ours.
-- William James
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"A
Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and
what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
-- Thomas
Jefferson 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 law must protect, and to violate would
be oppression.
-- Thomas
Jefferson |
"The
best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality
of rights."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
By
a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion,
freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries
in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are
fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Whenever
the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that
whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied
on to set them to rights.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
I
would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than
to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
See
also HUMAN RIGHTS Quotes
