Chris Grayling Quotes

The key to understanding the impact of the Human Rights Act in the U.K. is to appreciate that civil liberties and human rights are not two sides of the same coin.

Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

The Human Rights Act is a really important constitutional document, it isn't just a villain's charter.

Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of the press. These are enshrined. And yet, freedom of the press has been curtailed.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

The most general rights, which belong to all mankind, may be said to be the right to life, to liberty and to property.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

There should be constitutional liberty of speech and freedom of thought, which is the elementary right of every citizen under any civilized form of Government

Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice. Police up and down the country have found the Human Rights Act a much clearer and firmer basis for practical policing than the common law ever was.

What are we fighting the terrorists for if we ourselves do not even stand up for democracy - civil liberties and fundamental rights - which includes independence of the judiciary?

The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights such as the right to a fair trial, the right to life and free expression.

Civil Rights ... include and embrace every right that pertains to the citizen.

No law to combat terrorism should undermine the basic freedoms which we are trying to defend.

The Bill of Rights

It is the duty of the liberal to protect and extend the basic democratic freedoms.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Personal liberty shall be inviolable. No Danish subject shall in any manner whatever be deprived of his liberty because of his political or religious convictions or because of his descent.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition—well, they are still radical ideas.

There is no right more fundamental than the right to be born and reared with all the dignity the human person deserves.

The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes … values such as the dignity of every human person, respect for inviolable and inalienable rights, and the adoption of the “common good” as the end and criterion regulating political life.

In a Constitution for a free people, there can be no doubt that the meaning of ‘liberty’ must be broad indeed.

Today, many human rights take the forms of claims.

The Constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.