Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Johnny Cash

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

Henry Steele Commager

“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

William Whewell

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Roman Dmowski

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness”. –Roman Dmowski

Muhammad

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Marquis de Lafayette

“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties”. –Marquis de Lafayette

Thomas Jefferson

“A democracy is nothing more than mob-rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”. –Thomas Jefferson