Right to Freedom of Expression Quotes

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

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The people have every right they are entitled to, for the reason that they have all they can get.

There is no declaration of rights … the declaration of rights in the separate states are no security

Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in society. These include liberty, due process or justice, and freedom of religious beliefs. I find little sympathy with efforts to try to equate Internet access with these higher, fundamental concepts.

To use their human rights, people have to know about them.

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.