Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Rosen

For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent human natural rights of liberty and translate them into an age of new technolog

Jeffrey Sachs

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Christopher Hitchens

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Christopher Hitchens

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.

Gary Vaynerchuk

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

Christopher Dodd

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

Christopher Dodd

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Frances Wright

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Frances Wright

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Floyd Abrams

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

George W. Romney

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

George Washington

The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

George Washington

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

George Washington

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

George Washington

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

George Nethercutt

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

Friedrich Nietzsche

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Franz Grillparzer

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Franz Grillparzer

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

Jim Costa

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

George W. Bush

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

George W. Bush

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

George Soros

The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. The revenues from these auctions can be used to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the stagnation.

Frederick Douglass

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.

George F. Kennan

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

Fernando Alonso

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

Faye Wattleton

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Taft Benson

Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

Francis Hutcheson

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Grover Cleveland

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.