Right to Refuse Quotes

In 1967 the abortion laws in England were liberalized and we were all assured that this would not lead to abortion on demand or a decline in respect for unborn life or pressure on medical staff to become involved in abortion against their conscience. Five million abortions later those claims look hollow.

This system of military conscription … is not only inconsistent with the provisions and spirit of the Constitution, but also with all the principles of civil liberty.

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'

I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

No sheriff or bailiff of ours, or any other, shall take horses or carts of any Freeman for transportation, unless with the consent of that freeman.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

No person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

Compelled speech isn't worth much.

The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently, that's not necessarily the case.

I can think of few plainer, more direct abridgments of the freedoms of the 1st Amendment than to compel persons to support candidates, parties, ideologies or causes that they are against.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The United States government is the most powerful entity in the world, but even it does not have the power to force a single child to make any pledge or take any oath that he or she does not want to say or take.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

I am a public figure, but I am not public property.