“In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make and execute the laws with rigour, than to guarding against encroachments upon the rights of the community. As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.” PeopleGivingLittlesGovernmentLawCommunityLibertyToo MuchRightsDegreesAuthorityPaidRegardRuinsAnarchyDespotismFramedMagistratesGuardingEncroachmentToo Much PowerRigour Book:1779-1781 Source: 1779-1781
“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.” MenWorldGivingStillsLightLawFatherRightsImagineGenerationsBloodIdealsSakeFoundingPerilRule Of LawOur Founding FathersCharterInaugurationInaugural AddressExpedience Author:Barack Obama
“The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.” HumansTwoFormLawPoliticalSidesLibertyRightsProgressViolenceEconomicProduceMaterialsConceptsFoundationPropertyInjusticeHuman RightsLiberalismGuaranteesStemMedalRule Of LawInseparableTwo SidesPrivate PropertyUnified Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.' Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.” HumansSaidGovernmentFormLawUniverseDifferencesRightsRepublicanEssenceConstitutionDemocraticCapturedForms Of GovernmentLegislatorsProtector Book:Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays Source: Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays
“I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.” PeopleMeanLawRightsEqualFeministEqual Rights Author:Ronee Blakley
“We [Israel] already have two very strong democratic tools - the two basic laws of personal liberties and human rights. I think we should also provide the judiciary with another tool so that they can rely on the fact that Israel is a Jewish state in verdicts.” ThinkingShouldHumansTwoStatesFactsLawStrongLibertyRightsToolsDemocraticHuman RightsIsraelRelyVery StrongJudiciaryVerdictPersonal Liberty Author:Ayelet Shaked
“We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.” WritingLongBookCountryEnoughLawNextRightsEqualPresidentialChaptersEqual RightsNext Chapter Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.” PeopleHumansI CanLawFallHuman BeingsRightsImaginePeriodsEqualFundamentalsFalling In LoveHuman RightsJewInstanceOrthodox Author:Susan Jacoby
“Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.” PeopleHas BeensLawAbilityRightsWrittenExerciseGunShootingGun ControlAbidingConstitutional RightsOmar Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.” TryingHas BeensStatesStoriesLawBehindsRightsBillsConsumersCorporateClassicAssociationSenateLots Of MoneyVersusGroceriesLabelingMoney And PowerLobbyingGoliath Author:Zoe Lister-Jones
“United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.” PeopleNeedsShouldHumansStatesGovernmentLawValuesUnitedUnited StatesRightsWrittenDeserveHuman RightsTraditionalAcknowledgeNativeProtectedNative AmericanSovereigntyTreatiesState GovernmentAmerican ValuesUnited States Government Author:Leonard Peltier
“My goal in signing these [gun control ] bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner, while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.” LawGoalRightsGunResponsibleSafetyBillsFocusedOwnersGun ControlAbidingSigningPublic SafetyGun Owners Author:Jerry Brown
“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.” BelieveLittlesEndsLawSpiritCoursesHouseI BelieveFeltBitsRealizingWhiteStruggleRightsProgressJourneyPeriodsLittle BitSlaveryCivil RightsBarackRelaxWhite HouseNovemberJim CrowColonial Times Author:Questlove
“She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.” ShouldWarRememberLawNationsPresidentJusticeRightsCitizensChecksBlankAbove The LawSandra Day O ConnorBlank Check Author:Patrick Leahy
“The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.” PeopleHumansStillsHardProblemTodayLawReligiousCommonRightsRootsHuman RightsHumanitarianIslamicPushingPakistan Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi
“Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.” LooksLawIndividualNationsLibertyRightsCourtSupremeCivil RightsSupreme CourtMandatesIndividual Liberty Author:Frank Lautenberg
“Frank Johnson was recognized as one of the great federal judges of American history, I suppose. He was a law-and-order judge. He was a classical, I think, conservative. But he believed that civil rights provided in the Constitution applied to everybody.” ThinkingLawOrderRightsJudgingConstitutionConservativeCivil RightsFrankAmerican HistoryJohnsonLaw And OrderFederal Judges Author:Jeff Sessions
“The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution.” HumansLawValuesDifferencesIssuesRightsPerspectiveConceptsConstitutionHuman RightsObstaclesChinaInteractingBiggest Obstacles Author:Ai Weiwei