The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
Lysander Spooner
Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER That's pretty much the situation throughout the country. MICHAEL RIGHT Life is a right, not collateral or casual. SUHEIR HAMMAD Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and coura... JOSEPH PULITZER The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of governmen... BENJAMIN DISRAELI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men w... THOMAS CLARKSON The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, ... JAMES MADISON The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, ... JAMES MADISON There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a uni... SAMUEL GOMPERS The difficulty is that the right to privacy, ... is a right to have the government stop you from spe... EUGENE VOLOKH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. VOLTAIRE It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong VOLTAIRE This is a good sign to show that the government is moving in the right direction. FAUZI ICHSAN It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour... ROBERT KENNEDY Citizens have a right to know. We have a right to know how government spends our money. More importa... DARRELL OPFER Only the federal government can mobilize a national response to catastrophic disasters. That doesn't... JAMES CARAFANO No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature ... SAMUEL JOHNSON If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no... LYSANDER SPOONER No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm... ABDUL REEKI No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm... ABDUL HAMEED REEKI In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional r... DIANA AVIV We firmly believe in open government and a citizen's right to access government records, so they can... ADINA ROSENBAUM Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Access to social welfare is no longer a right to all, but a privilege for the few. The criminal gove... VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO We're not in the business of censorship. It is not up to a government official to determine whose op... LINTON JOHNSON Our government only moves forward when it feels there is a strong consensus. Right now, the consensu... MAO SHOULONG The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right. STATHIS KOUVELAKIS Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government... ADAM COHEN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any w... JO MANEY I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now. ALEX CHIU It is easier to run a revolution than a government. FERDINAND E. MARCOS Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off t... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have... MATT SALMON The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pres... GEORGE PACKER It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right. J.R. RIM It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right. J.R. RIM You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protecte... VEERAPPA MOILY We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer t... ERNST TOLLER There are a lot of Americans giving donations right now, which is great, but it will take an organiz... GARY LONG Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. CORY BOOKER I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is... ARTHUR SYLVESTER I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is... ARTHUR SYLVESTER Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri... EZRA STILES A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD The British government had no right to discriminate against any Irish political representative. ALEX MASKEY It's certainly not right to be taking credit for something that the government is already doing. It ... DANIEL BOROCHOFF It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with th... BOB LATTA For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique. WILLIAM HAGUE Life is a predicament which precedes death. HENRY JAMES When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER The public has a right to know whether the government is doing what it's supposed to in cases like t... FRANK GIBSON All non-convicted detainees have the right to vote. That includes Saddam and other former government... ABDUL HUSSEIN HINDAWI Every group has a right to put its point of view. But ultimately it is the government of India that ... ABHISHEK SINGHVI Does the government have the right to regulate every single letter that a doctor writes about a pati... MARK ANDERSON More inclusive policy-making is critical. Right now, government policies are still very much elabora... DR. JUTTA GUTBERLET I walked out of the government to fight and put right what had gone wrong. DR KIZZA BESIGYE When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no con... GARY LLOYD Businesses are the most sensitive to changing economic dynamism, followed by households and, lastly,... HIDEO KUMANO I think we are OK for right now. The next go-around for federal government comes up in October, so w... JULIE MCMAHAN Right now we do have sufficient government subsidies. I'm not blaming these adopters after all they ... XUE CHONGDE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural he... MAYA ANGELOU When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. VICTOR HUGO I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Abusing this right is a legal offense. ARSENIY YATSENYUK Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to b... AUSTIN IGLEHEART Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel! ROBERT FANNEY What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's... SUSAN POWTER The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect t... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON
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