#privileges

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#away #between #broad #constitution #country

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#certain #certain kinds #courts #deserve #documentation

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#about #america #convictions #enjoy #feeling

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. ↗

— Noah Webster

#basis #christian #christian religion #evident #free

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#above #both #loses #people #principles

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life. ↗

— Todd Akin

#any #attempt #civil #civil government #family

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#always #enjoy #every #had #hope

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#filmmaker #i #i think #kind #opportunity

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#men #new #new testament #opportunities #privileges

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. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #free #free people #fruitful #good