“America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.” IfsWantAmericaFacesCertainSimpleBehindsResponsibilityFireRightsExampleSpeechConsequenceTheaterFormulasProfessorsScreamClassroomFree SpeechCrowdedTenureRights And Responsibilities Book:Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say Source: Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say
“And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.” CountryHandsGovernmentParentSimpleRightsExampleAbuseCurtainsTrust MeParentalInterveningParental Rights Author:Sean Hannity
“Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all Religious establishments, the simple question to be decided, is whether a support of the best & purest religion, the Christian religion itself ought not, so far at least as pecuniary means are involved, to be provided for by the Government, rather than be left to the voluntary provisions of those who profess it.” MeanStatesGovernmentChristianLeftSocialReligiousSimpleSupportRightsOughtInvolvedConscienceDecidedSurrenderEstablishmentProvisionImplied Author:James Madison
“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?” MenTodayCausesSimpleRightsCenturyAchievementDiedPossessionTreasureInheritanceRecogniseBattlefieldsBetter Man Author:Winston Churchill
“Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'” ThinkingHumansBigsChristSimpleIssuesRightsEatingGardenHuman RightsPunishmentAwfulApplesCommandmentsBackwardsEdenGarden Of Eden Author:Terry Pratchett
“I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.” PeopleWayReasonJobsSimpleRightsBest WayWages Author:Sadiq Khan