Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 494 Individual Rights quotesIndividual Rights QuotesIndividual Rights Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.~ Alexander Ivanovich Herzen This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilised nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!~ Adolf Hitler The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.~ Adolf Hitler Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.~ Eric Hoffer I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.~ Billie Holiday You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.~ Billie Holiday [T]he greatest problem facing the United States today is not racism; it is the disappearance of the can-do attitude that built the country, ... We’ve lost the sense of individual responsibility for our problems, and that’s bad enough. But what’s worse, we’re losing faith in our ability to solve our problems. This acquired sense of helplessness is catastrophic, and it has paralyzed large swaths of the American public – rural, urban and suburban. … Encouraging dependence upon government not only creates generations of helpless people; it inures them to government’s ineffectiveness.~ Laura Hollis If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.~ Homer Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.~ Herbert Hoover The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.~ Hubert H. Humphrey Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.~ Hubert H. Humphrey I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of the state.~ Julian Huxley Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.~ Hypatia of Alexandria It is precisely for the protection of the minority that constitutional limitations exist. Majorities need no such protection. They can take care of themselves.~ Illinois Supreme Court Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print