#individual rights

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin. ↗

— Ann Robinson

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But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

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The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in. ↗

— Trent Lott

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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. ↗

— Ron Paul

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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. ↗

— Larry Flynt

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