Rene Cassin Quotes

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.

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

In the dilemma of dealing with terrorists who wish to destroy the society, there is sometimes a conflict between human rights and human life. To me the solution is that human life takes precedent over human rights.

if any government does not acknowledge the rights of the human person or violates them, it not only fails in its duty, but its orders completely lack juridical force

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

Any delay in action protecting constitutional rights is justice denied.

Rights that depend on the sufferance of the State are of uncertain tenure.

We should give full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad.

Before I became Attorney General, I won’t say that I stayed up at night worrying about civil rights

Preserving peace does not always coincide with the promotion of human rights.

There should be a single standard in the world for human rights.

Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.

Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?

There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.

Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.