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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. -- Abraham Lincoln
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. -- Laurence J. Peter
The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir. -- Jane Grey
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty? -- Thomas Frank
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. -- Rick Perry
China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries. -- Evan Osnos
If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised. -- Muhammad Yunus
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. -- Thomas Aquinas
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. -- Meg Cabot
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. -- Abraham Lincoln
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name. -- Aaron Huey
Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. -- Theodor Herzl
It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided. -- Hillary Clinton
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. -- Jose Marti
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right. -- Derek Luke
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior. -- Saint Ignatius
In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society. -- Tim Jackson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. -- Robert Mugabe
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind. -- Viet D. Dinh
I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. -- Sloane Crosley
The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. -- Richard M. Nixon
Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. -- Barack Obama
The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals. -- Rudolf Steiner
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed. -- Richard Morris
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. -- James Russell Lowell
By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home. -- Leon Brown
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use. -- John Paul II
A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use. -- John Paul II
The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason. -- Bryant H. McGill
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. -- Thomas Jefferson
Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world. -- Chris Christie
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result. -- Abraham Lincoln
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it. -- William James
We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. -- Albert Einstein
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A lie is the most sacred private property on Earth. Governments claim it is not theirs, and that their critics are the rightful owners. -- Gustavo Gus Larsen
In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator. -- Ilchi Lee
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him. -- Therese of Lisieux
Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner. -- Alice Hoffman
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise -- John Greenleaf Whittier
A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it. -- Malcolm X
I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine. -- Nenia Campbell
I am Cersei of House Lannister, a lion of the Rock, the rightful queen of these Seven Kingdoms, trueborn daughter of Tywin Lannister. And hair grows back. -- George R. R. Martin
Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets. -- Abraham Lincoln
The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it. -- David Kim
Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners. -- Robert Higgs
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. -- Emanuel Lasker
I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice. -- Jhonen Vasquez
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support. -- Charles Grandison Finney
If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high. -- Sunil Mittal
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed. -- Thomas Jefferson
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. -- Henry George
When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down. -- Joshua Harris
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again. -- Tony Blair
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you. -- Jack Kornfield
It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order. -- Thomas Jefferson
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities. -- Thomas Jefferson

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