Quotes
Quotes about Right
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.
Right as a trivet.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.
But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
The rule of the road is a paradox quite, If you drive with a whip or a thong; If you go to the left you are sure to be right, If you go to the right you are wrong.
For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is.
For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act. - Francis Hutcheson,
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris Vis erat.]
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
All Nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is is right.
Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.
No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.
All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
