Mark Skousen Quotes

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

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

We made freedom a birthright.

Nothing... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

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

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights.

Our nation was founded on the principle that our government should be of the people, by the people, and for the people - where all people are treated equally, and with respect, in these United States of America.

I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

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

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.