Of all Plato's provisions the object is to bring the practice of the law more into harmony with reason and philosophy; to secure impartiality, and while acknowledging that every citizen has a right to share in the administration of justice, to counteract the tendency of the courts to become mere popular assemblies.
— from Laws by Plato

Do not you know that every creditor has a right to stop his runaway debtor.
— from Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are by William Godwin

But a party of Cromwellian soldiers were at his heels, and his wife had only just time to hurry him into an ingeniously contrived hiding-place when the enemy confronted her, and refused to budge from the very bedroom behind whose panelled walls the fugitive was secreted.
— from Nooks and Corners of Old England by Allan Fea

Arrhenius was led then to the further important conclusion that, in the case of the first electrolytes mentioned, a very large proportion of the electrolyte must exist in the ionized form at finite concentrations , their equivalent conductivities having almost reached the limit characteristic of infinite dilution.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

The Englishmen, therefore, who have succeeded most permanently in India have rarely been the most brilliant; and the names which will live there are not those which their English contemporaries have always ranked the highest.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I hold that every citizen has a right to a voice in the government under which he lives.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

"But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle

Not untruly has Sismondi said, that the "Eleventh Century has a right to be considered a great age.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In discussions of the social evil it is often said that every child has a right to be well born, but Robert Louis Stevenson saw more deeply and spoke more truly when he said, “We are all nobly born; fortunate those who know it; blessed those who remember.”
— from The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Braddy Henney

"It is all very well for the poorer people," said Patterson, "but after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

Yet, conceiving that every citizen has a right to demand a certificate or passport, Mr. Burr is constrained to renew his application to Mr. Russell, to whom the consul has been pleased to refer the decision.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr