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 | "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural,
essential, and unalienable rights." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for
yourself that is my doctrine." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death
your right to say it." | |
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Tom Stoppard
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| "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say
it." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does
so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of
murder." | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time
saddled with a responsibility." | |
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Gerald W. Johnson
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| "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a
profound philosopher." | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they
have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no
rights." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign"s right to do wrong." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right
people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right
length of time, is commended." | |
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Aristotle
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| "The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million." | |
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Eugene Victor Debs
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| "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their
rights and nothing less." | |
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Susan Brownell Anthony
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| "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are
expounding." | |
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John Marshall
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| "We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all." | |
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William Reece Smith, Jr.
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