We expect the Salvadorean officials to work towards the extremination of human rights.
Dan Quayle
Category: Foot in Mouth, Human Rights
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution, [they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. [we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King. It was not the sort of revolution that France's was - 'Liberty, quality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then, of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.
Margaret Thatcher 1989
Category: France, Human Rights
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America
Jimmy Carter
Category: Great American Quotes, Human Rights
