In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

I vote and I do jury duty.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Due process should matter.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.