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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here." »Payne Stewart
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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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"special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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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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"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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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." »G. K. Chesterton
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"drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." »Unknown
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"Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace." »Oscar Wilde
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"drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." »Robert Benchley
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"drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." »Salvador Dali
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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace." »Oscar Wilde
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"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes." »Clare Ansberry
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"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." »Samuel Butler
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"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood." »Buddha
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"Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." »Mary Hirsch
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"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." »Mary Hirsch
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . ." »Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
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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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