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All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! -- Leon Bourgeois
Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. -- Laurance Labadie
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. -- Thomas Jefferson
The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well. -- Ameen Rihani
Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature. -- Pope Leo XIII
In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role. -- John Rawls
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. -- Barack Obama
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. -- Indira Gandhi
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter -- Mahatma Gandhi
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. -- Millard Fillmore
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. -- Victor Hugo
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. -- Marquis de Lafayette
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made. -- Pope Benedict XVI
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction. -- David Novak
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms. -- Wesley Clark
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. -- Elihu Root
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. -- William Jennings Bryan
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. -- Toba Beta
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Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. -- Marquis de Lafayette
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. -- Georges Bernanos
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties. -- Zadie Smith
'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. -- Laurance Labadie
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties. -- William J. H. Boetcker
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. -- Voltaire
Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties. -- Cecily McMillan
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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