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Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence.

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If instead of insisting on rights everyone does his duty, there will immediately be the rule of order established among mankind. There is no such thing as the divine right of kings to rule and the humble duty of the ryots to pay respectful obedience.

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Away with private wrongs! We'll not go forthTo fight for these — but for the rights of men.

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Nothing can be permitted to the few ; rights and advantages were sent for all ...

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One of the grandest things in having rights is that, being your rights, you may give them up.

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Rights are lost by disuse.

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No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation.

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The law helps the vigilant, before those who sleep on their rights.

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Rights are grand things, divine things, in this world of God; but the way in which we expound those rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. I see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. Alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights!

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Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.

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A right should not be absolute for the same reason that a power should not be absolute.

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If you say to someone who has ears to hear: “What you are doing to me is not just,” you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, “I have the right...” or “you have no right to...” They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

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Right as a trivet.

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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

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Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

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He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

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But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,That right was right, and there he would abide.

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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

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The rule of the road is a parodox quite, If you go to the right you are wrong.

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For right is right, since God is God, To falter would be sin.

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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

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The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

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And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is.

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For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident,—that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

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All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.

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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

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Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

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All Nature is but art unknown to thee;One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.

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No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.

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Old rights must remain: it would be very unreasonable if it should be otherwise.

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A pretensed right is no right at all.

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It shall not be in the power of any man, by his election, to vary the rights of two other contending parties.

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By the laws of England, there can be no special right, no particular interest or privilege whatever, of perpetual duration, but such as have respect to some kind of inheritance.

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