Rightful
Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.
Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause.
Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.
Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority.
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Rightful Quotations
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
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
Rick Perry
Rightful Translations
rightful in Italian is legittimo
rightful in Spanish is justo
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