Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

If one were to rob human beings of the power to do and say what they please, that would be to take away, and to curtail the first principle of independence.

Two rights don't equal a left.

The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

"Boy everyone in this country is running around yammering about their fucking rights. "I have a right, you have no right, we have a right."

Folks I hate to spoil your fun, but... there's no such thing as rights. They're imaginary. We made 'em up. Like the boogie man. Like Three Little Pigs, Pinocio, Mother Goose, shit like that. Rights are an idea. They're just imaginary. They're a cute idea. Cute. But that's all. Cute...and fictional. But if you think you do have rights, let me ask you this, "where do they come from?" People say, "They come from God. They're God given rights." Awww fuck, here we go again...here we go again.

The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, "It came from God." Anything we can't describe must have come from God. Personally folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would've given you the right for some food every day, and he would've given you the right to a roof over your head. GOD would've been looking out for ya. You know that.

He wouldn't have been worried making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend's parents.

But let's say it's true. Let's say that God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?

The Bill of Rights of this country has 10 stipulations. OK...10 rights. And apparently God was doing sloppy work that week, because we've had to ammend the bill of rights an additional 17 times. So God forgot a couple of things, like...SLAVERY. Just fuckin' slipped his mind.

But let's say...let's say God gave us the original 10. He gave the british 13. The british Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29, the Belgians have 25, the Sweedish have only 6, and some people in the world have no rights at all. What kind of a fuckin' god damn god given deal is that!?...NO RIGHTS AT ALL!? Why would God give different people in different countries a different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmeti

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

You can't have occupation and human rights.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.