Duty Quote by Thomas Paine

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

— John D. Rockefeller

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

— John D. Rockefeller

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

— Ramsey Clark

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

— James Madison

“The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself,…

— Simone Weil

“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were published it…

— Thomas Paine

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

— Russell Kirk

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;…

— William Godwin

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal…

— Joseph Priestley

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

— Pope Leo XIII

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list;…

— William Godwin

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

— Eleanor Roosevelt