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"We have the bill of rights. What we need is a bill of Responsibilities." »Bill Maher
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"The whole of the bill of rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." »Albert Gallatin
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"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." »Ayn Rand
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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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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then, on the way out, slam the door." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar" »Thomas Jefferson
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others." »William Jennings Bryan
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"The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million." »Eugene V. Debs
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"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights." »Ronald Reagan
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"Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less." »Susan B. Anthony
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"Applause is a receipt, not a bill." »Arthur Schnabel
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." »Christopher Parker
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"bill Dickey is learning me his experience." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Slater Didja ever look at a dollar bill man There's some spooky shit goin' on there. And it's green too." »Dazed and Confused
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"Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other." »Ivy Baker Priest
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"Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other." »Joe Moore
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"The idea that bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place." »Douglas Adams, The Guardian
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And believe me, you are no Thomas Jefferson. (at 1992 Republican party convention, referring to bill Clinton)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Don't let anyone tell you that you don't have rights, because no one has the right to say that." »Roman Lalich
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"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights." »John Wooden
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"If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole
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"Equal rights were created for everyone." »contesant in 1990 Mr. New Jersey Male pageant
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"Property has its duties as well as its rights." »Thomas Brummond
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"“Even the streamlined patent-reform bill before the Senate is significantly controversial. Some estimate the reform could create as many as 2 million jobs, but when you look under the covers, there does not appear to be any support for this. And small businesses, corporations, and individual inventors are significantly opposed."" »Yar Chaikovsky
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