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But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.

— Rick Santorum

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

— Rafael Cruz

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

— Ernie Fletcher

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.

— Susan B. Anthony

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

— Ron Paul

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

— Edmund S. Muskie

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

— Clarence Thomas

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

— Jay Alan Sekulow

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

— Algernon Sidney

✗Opposing Perspectives

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

— Roy Moore

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

— Robert Hurt