Individual Rights

Famous quotes containing the words individual and/or rights:

    “This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.”
    —Hortense Odlum (1892–?)

    “I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, “that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living”: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)