Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.Ayn Rand
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.Rush Limbaugh
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.Mary Wollstonecraft
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.Harvey Milk
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.Lysander Spooner
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.Peter B. Lewis
I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.Richard Stanley
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.William Jennings Bryan
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.Bernie Sanders
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.Eli Whitney
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.Morgan Freeman
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.Abraham Lincoln
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.Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.Maya Angelou