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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

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.

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.