The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Epictetus
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan
If you bend the rights, they will break.
Norwegian proverbs
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
