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Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop. — William Ernest Hocking

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. — Ibn Warraq

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq. — Jalal Talabani

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

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights ... — Ayn Rand

In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens. — Dick Durbin

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. — Ayn Rand

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights. — Mary Frances Berry

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence

Despots are elected and deposed.
Laws are passed and repealed.
Nations rise and fall.
Individual liberty is eternal. — A.E. Samaan

... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual's private choice. — G.A. Hauser

There is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights. — Ayn Rand

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. — John Podhoretz

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. — Ronald Reagan

It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs — Ian Harris

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy. — Ayn Rand

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters. — A.E. Samaan

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. — Thomas Jefferson

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me. — Jimmy Wales

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

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. — Ayn Rand

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

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan

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

Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom. — Newton Lee

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality. — Tony Fernandes

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. — Wyndham Lewis

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century. — Dianne Feinstein

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty. — Elizabeth Price Foley

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. — Ayn Rand

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights. — A.E. Samaan

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. — Neil Peart

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. — Calvin Coolidge

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. — Jalal Talabani

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B.F. Skinner

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. — Frank Lautenberg

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good. — Neil Peart

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions. — Penn Jillette

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. — A.E. Samaan

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. — Alfred Marshall

Statism is political fashion.
Individual liberty is eternal. — A.E. Samaan

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal. — Harry S. Truman

We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way. — Ron Paul

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. — Ron Paul

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. — George Jellinek

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other. — A.E. Samaan

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. — Lyn Nofziger

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson

I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred. — A.E. Samaan

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live. — Bertha Von Suttner

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul

An individual with no covenant can operate in an anointing, but will have no authority. — Thea Harris

A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement. — Emily Matchar

A basic component of individual rights is the right to own property. — Russell Shorto

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J.G. Holland

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned — Ayn Rand