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«Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.»
Author: Charles T. Sprading
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
antithesis, confuse, definitions, ethical, legal, legal right, synonym, synonyms, writers
«Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
Among the, colonist, colonists, defend, manner, Natural right, natural rights, property, property right, property rights, right to liberty, right to life, secondly, The Natural, thirdly
«All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things»
Author: Victor Cousin
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Right
| Keywords:
equity, faculties, impartial
«A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Politics,
Presidency,
Right
| Keywords:
hardest, President
«And all is right as right can be.»
«A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Right
| Keywords:
disarmed, disarming, disarms, holds, legal, legally, legal right, monopolies, Monopoly, physical, physical force, rights, the threat of, threat, victims
«As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights»
«A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Government,
Right
| Keywords:
bill, Bill of Rights, entitled, General Government, inference, inferences, rest on
«A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
claim, derived, free people, Laws, Laws of nature, magistrate, rights, The Gift, the laws of nature
«A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.»
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