Personal Rights Quotes:

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Rights, Politics, Conservative, Personal Rights, Property Rights

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Life, Respect, Men, Personal Rights, Private Property

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Life, Strong, Freedom, States Rights, Abolition

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

- James Madison

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.46

topic: Freedom, Democracies Have, Rights, Factions, Individual Rights

The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Determination, Home, Reflection, Personal Rights, Right To Life

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: War, Labor Force, Rights, Compact, Personal Rights

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: Couple, Struggle, Rights, Personal Rights

They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: Running, Past, Thinking, Personal Rights, American Law

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.

- James Madison

source: Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.266, Madison & Adams Press

topic: Trust, Jobs, Regret, Indignation, Speculators

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its fruits; that industry from which property results, and that enjoyment which consists not merely in its immediate use, but in its posthumous destination to objects of choice, and of kindred affection. In a just and free government, therefore, the rights both of property and of persons ought to be effectually guarded.

- James Madison

source: "Selections from the Private Correspondence of James Madison, from 1813 to 1836".

topic: Freedom, Law, Rights, Personal Rights, Posthumous

I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

- Samuel

topic: Mean, Rights, People, Personal Rights

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

- Westbrook Pegler

topic: Rights, America, Long, Personal Rights, Ignorant Person

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

topic: Religious, Educational, Character, Exponents, Personal Rights

Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Rights, Government, Demand, Personal Rights

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

- Dennis Prager

source: Dennis Prager (2010). “Think a Second Time”, p.15, Harper Collins

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Rights, Personal Rights

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

- Potter Stewart

source: "Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 511". 1961.

topic: Home, Men, Rights, Intrusion, Personal Rights

The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens.

- Joseph Story

topic: Government, Rights, Justice, Personal Rights, Administration Of Justice