Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
Charles Rangel
Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government.
Thomas Jefferson
The equal protection clause does not require proportional representation, ... meaningless ballots.
Thurgood Marshall
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights
William Blackstone
May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving protection be a blessing to you always.
Irish Blessings
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
Robin Gross
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James Madison
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of justice and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.
Algernon Sidney
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them
Demosthenes
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
David Seabury
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us
Thomas Jefferson