#rights

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #being #citizen #freedom #freeman

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#bound #constitution #country #debate #england

Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance. ↗

— Ron Davies

#every #express #i #i think #indeed

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised. ↗

— Ron Davies

#context #every #exercised #freedom #freedom of speech

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation. ↗

— Russel Kirk

#human-rights #judgement-day #law #equality

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#desirable #law #most #rights #sea

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye