We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.