Again, if the laws regulating the institution of slavery, be morally null and void, and not binding on the conscience, then the slaves have a moral right to the proceeds of their labor.
If the master has no moral rightto hold his slaves, in what respect can the products of their labor differ from the property acquired by robbery?
And though all of those who live on the interest of inherited capital are not foolish nor vicious, yet in this respect they are all of them in the same position--they have not produced their incomes, and so have no moral right to them.
It assumes that a man has a moral right to what he produces, interest being here contrasted with this, as a something which he does not produce.
In civil cases the suit or defense is unjust when it clearly has no moral right.
The consequences of war are so dreadful, and the use of force against another nation is such an extreme measure, that one should refrain from hostilities as long as one's moral right is uncertain.
I do not know how far this would be taken to imply that a man has a moral right to leave his country whenever he finds it convenient--provided no claims except those of Patriotism retain him there.
For example, we should not consider that the first finder of a large uninhabited region had a moral right to appropriate the whole of it.
For if we inheritors had confessedly no moral right to the wealth we had done nothing to produce or acquire, yet we had committed no positive wrong to obtain it.
If a father has a moral rightto use tobacco, so has his boy.
A young man has no moral right to demand purity of his sweetheart at the marriage altar unless he can offer her a pure life.
You may convince me never so thoroughly that I ought to vote the Republican or the Democratic ticket, yet I shall sit still on election day if you do not touch my feelings of moral right or practical expediency.
The line between these and arguments of moral right is not always easy to draw, for in the tangle of life and character right and advantage often run together.
In politics there are still in this country many occasions when the only argument possible is based on moral right.
Find from the history of the last fifty years three examples of questions which turned on moral right.
He would infer that purchase, or inheritance, or bequest, or any other title having the immemorial sanction of the State, does not create a moral right to movable goods any more than to land.
Neither the monopolist who increases value by restricting supply, nor the pace-makers of fashion, who increase value by merely increasing demand, are regarded as possessing a moral right to the value that they have "created.
Yet none of these producers of value are regarded as having a moral rightto their product.
Though a man should have become the rightful owner of all the land in a neighbourhood, he would have no moral right to exclude therefrom those persons who could not without extreme inconvenience find a living elsewhere.
You owe something to humanity, and a lot more back to the gods who gave you the voice; you have nomoral right to do anything that will hinder your paying that debt.
Couldn't you put it to him strongly that he has no moral right to hold her to her promise?
I could; but he would probably put it to me just as strongly that I have no moral right to interfere in his concerns.
No one has a moral right to our generosity or beneficence, because we are not morally bound to practise those virtues towards any given individual.
We may say, therefore, that a second case of injustice consists in taking or withholding from any person that to which he has a moral right.
Virginia has the physical force, but has she a moral right to violate the Constitution of the United States?
Can the Legislature give me a moral right to violate the Constitution of the United States, which I have sworn to support?
Let us turn slavery from its claims of "moral right," back upon its existing legal rights and its arguments of "necessity.
I object to it because it assumes that there can be moral right in the enslaving of one man by another.
Let us turn slavery from its claims of moral right, back upon its existing legal rights and its arguments of necessity.
If the negro is a man, then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
If a man has no moral right to own land, he can have no moral right to sell or give land.
If a man has no moral right to sell or to give land, then another man can have no moral right to keep land bought or received in gift from him.
It is manifest that no man can have a moral right to anything given or sold to him by another person who had no right to the thing given or sold.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
