Chen Shui-bian Quotes

The lesson of history that all human rights are indivisible and that the failure to adhere to this principle jeopardizes the rights of all.

Our rights to live and to love each other, those rights are greater than any other right in the Constitution, period.

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.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

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.

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

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

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

The Constitution doesn’t say that whites alone shall have our basic rights.., but that we shall all have them

In the year 2010, Kenya adopted a new constitution. With that constitution, we further secured the human rights and civil liberties of our citizens and entrenched constitutional governance and justice.

Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

The right to life is the first among human rights.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

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

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges, as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen's basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

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

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

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

It is my sincere opinion that the Constitution ought to be revised, and that the first Congress meeting under it, ought to prepare and recommend to the States for ratification, the most satisfactory provisions for all essential rights …

The Constitution does not allow the unnecessary trammeling of free expression, even for the noblest of purposes.

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