| "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America." : Jimmy Carter - [James Earl Carter] (1924- ) 39th US President
"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.": Carl Schurz - (1829-1906) German-born, US General, US Senator (MO), Founded the Liberal Republican movement
"Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." : Thomas Jefferson - (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
"Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.": Abraham Lincoln - (1809-1865) 16th US President
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