Samuel Adams Quotes

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Freedom is our birthright.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property.

We made freedom a birthright.

The Bill of Rights is one of the greatest documents of freedom ever devised in human experience. It is of particular importance to those who have been the victims of oppression.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another.