Anthony Eden Quotes

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

People have increasingly come to regard the government as a source of rights rather than as a defender of pre-existing individual rights.

Duty, recognizing an individual's subordination to community welfare, is as important as rights ...

Morality is the object of government.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

Human rights takes history out of justice.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.

The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.