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Letter "R" » Right
«The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them»
«The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law»
Author: Maria Edgeworth
(Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Right
| Keywords:
reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief»
Author: Roger Rosenblatt
| About:
Belief,
Potential,
Right
| Keywords:
Bill of Rights, document, guardian, underlies
«The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.»
Author: William Randolph
| About:
Right
«The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.»
«The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Government,
Individuality,
Right
| Keywords:
foe, His country, punished, refuses
«The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Politics,
Right
| Keywords:
alter, basis, constitutions, political, political system, political systems, system
«The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
almost, bug, bugging, difference, lightning, lightning bug, The Bug, word
«The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Feminism,
Right,
Women
| Keywords:
countenance, countenanced, countenances, individual rights, The Battle, undermined, undermines, undermining
«The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Liberty,
Life,
Right
| Keywords:
expatriation, natural rights, right to life, right to the pursuit of happiness, sophistical, The Pursuit of Happiness
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