“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.” GovernmentLawLyingLibertyPrinciplesSubjectsPositionCitizensFoundationDenyCommandCivil RightsOfficialsExceptionalCivil LibertiesGovernment OfficialsLaw Courts Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.” SelfGovernmentPoliticalCitizensEssentialsChinaDenyRegimesContrastRepresentativesDissentFreedom Of ReligionSelf-government Author:Todd Akin
“From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."” PeopleBookMatterStatesReadingSexLinesAcceptingChristianityRightsWillingCitizensUnionsIslamDenyHospitalsObscureSermonsHusseinDefiningCoverageAmerican CitizensMind BlowingAudacityChristianity And IslamVisitationSermon On The MountChristian HopeAudacity Of HopeHealth Insurance Coverage Author:Barack Obama
“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.” StatesShowsLawProcessCommonNumbersEffortRightsCitizensEqualIncreaseVictimDenyProtectionDuesHonestlyTendenciesInvasionSavageryLynchingDue ProcessEqual ProtectionDue Process Of Law Author:H. L. Mencken
“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.” DifferentMomentsAmericaRememberBeliefNationsJusticeMinesStrangeColorCitizensFellowsDenyThat MomentBetray Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.” WantIdeasCountryLeftGrowsSleepHalfPracticeCitizensCapitalismEconomicsDenyRealizationGood IdeasRainyRainy DaySurplus Author:David Mamet
“That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.” UseGovernmentChoicesCitizensDenyFacultyOccupationArbitraryMonopolyRestrictionFree ChoiceExemption Book:Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
“Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?” ThinkingShouldMayHas BeensGovernmentHouseLostCommunityParticularCitizensWorshipPropertyDenyDebateHeatPrivate PropertyMosquesCommunity CentersHouses Of Worship Author:Michael Bloomberg