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| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. | | Ayn Rand | |
| Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it. | | Voltaire | |
| In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). | | Ayn Rand | |
| It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. | | Moliere | |
| Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. | | Mark Twain | |
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| No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." | | Mark Twain | |
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| Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government | | George Washington | |
| The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
