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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

Men, People, Constitution, Congress, Who

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

Equality, Law, Action, Limits, Liberty

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. - Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. Abraham Lincoln

Peaceful, Bullets, Ballots

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

Mind, Law, Oppression, Rights, Principle

You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards. Kamal Haasan

Anger, You, Create, Ethical, Own, Wrath

Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State - to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-Muslims - Hindus, Christians, and Parsis - but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Mission, Enjoy, Play, Rights, Will, Same

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

Depression, People, Think, World, Face

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

War, Three, Authority, Intention, First

We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output. Cyril Ramaphosa

Grow, Need, Land, Restore, Transform

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

Think, World, Winner, Week, You, Flight

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

Rest, Earth, Enough, Nation, Over, Us

Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society. Tedros Adhanom

Education, Confidence, Knowledge, Play

The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans. Tecumseh

I Am, People, Strong, Long, You, Race

We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny. C. V. Raman

Sun, Victory, Destiny, Proud, Achieving

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

Freedom, Community, Light, Face, Place

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

Money, Trust, Wishes, Thief, Own, Either

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. Friedrich Durrenmatt

Right, Individual, Existential, Dissent

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

Women, Health, People, Hunger, Will

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

Pride, Judge, Judgment, Own, Judges, Up

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

Women, Men, Opportunities, Now, Share

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

Women, Children, Time, Past, Men, Place

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

Equality, Welcome, People, White, Land

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

Innovation, Opportunity, Collaboration

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. Rick Perry

Balance, Government, Goal, Washington

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

Women, Worry, Bank, Structure, Poor, Who

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic. Bobby Sands

I Am, End, Recognition, Political, Lost

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