The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail

Never regret what you don't write.