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
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
- Jim Garrison
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
- Robert D Kaplan
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
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
- Lawrence Kohlberg
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
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
- Nong Duc Manh
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
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
- Steven Pinker
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ayn Rand
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
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
- Ayn Rand
When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.
- Ayn Rand
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
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.
- Michael J Sandel
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
- Richard Scaife
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
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
- Clarence Thomas
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
- Bennie Thompson
- Larry Flynt
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
- Jim Garrison
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
- Robert D Kaplan
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
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
- Lawrence Kohlberg
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
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
- Nong Duc Manh
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
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
- Steven Pinker
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ayn Rand
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
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
- Ayn Rand
When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.
- Ayn Rand
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
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.
- Michael J Sandel
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.
- Richard Scaife
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
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
- Clarence Thomas
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
- Bennie Thompson
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