Individual rights Quotes

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom" "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself" "Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions" "Privacy is a fundamental human right" "We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties" "Every step we take towards making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the state our master." "The constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" "When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interest which is thereby designated." "Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once." "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized." "In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents." "The interests of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place" "The smallest minority on earth is the individual" "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others"