Individual Rights

Famous quotes containing the words individual and/or rights:

“Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.”
—Suzanne Lafollette (1893–1983)

“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 the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)