Allen Drury Quotes

A man is born free.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Generous souls always interest themselves in the fate of a people who strive to recover the rights to which the Creator and Nature have entitled them, and one must indeed be wedded to error and passion not to harbor this noble sentiment

All men are born free.

The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men, and acknowledged to be so by all that have harkened to the voice of nature.

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must he the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

Wherever there is repression of the individual, wherever there are acts contrary to the nature of the individual, there can be no greater crime.

The excellence of the West lies not in its accomplishments in the sciences, arts and technology, but rather, these accomplishments are the outgrowth of the West's respect for the human being, the recognition of his individuality, the liberty it has granted him, and the establishment of government in the service of the people—the government belongs to the people, and they do not belong to it. This is a qualitative change, unprecedented in human history

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation, as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground

Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.