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Individual rights Quotes

"In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents."

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"

"Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once."

"It’s a fickle thing; fame. But I value my privacy above all things."

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority"

"That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity"

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself"

"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."

"The more laws, the less justice"

"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."

"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used"

"Freedom – to walk free and own no superior."

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself"

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

"The interests of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place"

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