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Quotes about Right


The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

David Junius

And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.

Oliver Goldsmith

How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone; But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong; Like angel's visits short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long.

John Norris of Bemerton

On a March clothesline .. transparent icicles in a row in the bright sun they drip and glow Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!! a sentence of joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!

Saiom Shriver

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.

Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Sir James Mansfield

The 2 rules of Judo training: 1) the teacher is always right and 2) when you think the teacher is wrong, refer to rule one.

Source Unknown

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

John Jay

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

Samuel Chase

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Raymond Chandler

Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.

Richard Carlson

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

Elbert Hubbard

Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."

Mark Twain

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

Henry George

Go away... I'm alright.

H. G. Wells

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Francis Bible

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers.

Francis Bible

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

Lister Sinclair

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.

Harold J. Seymour

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

Elbert Hubbard

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Gregory Nunn

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry

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