RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right t… — The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary — Ambrose Bierce

RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. The first of these rights was once universally believed to be derived directly from the will of God; and this is still sometimes affirmed _in partibus infidelium_ outside the enlightened realms of Democracy; as the well known lines of Sir Abednego Bink, following:

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