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by right

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by right

Synonym of by rights

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If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. Saskya Pandita

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt

If we can advance propositions both true and new, these are our own by right of discovery and if we can repeat what is old, more briefly and brightly than others, this also Becomes our own, by right of conquest. Charles Caleb Colton

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. Aeschylus

Who cannot fight, wins nought by right. German Proverb

The more by law, the less by right. Danish Proverb

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