Individual Rights Quotes. QuotesGram

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).

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.

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.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

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.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

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.

The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.

Individual Rights Quotes

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