The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.