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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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