Quotes
Quotes about Right
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail."
Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
Then fill to-night, with hearts as light
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim
And break on the lips while meeting.
Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
Ye quenchless stars! so eloquently bright,
Untroubled sentries of the shadowy night.
Come o'er the moonlit sea,
The waves are brightly glowing.
Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright
On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.
Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,
Through present wrong the eternal right;
And, step by step, since time began,
I see the steady gain of man;
Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,--
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.
Our fathers' God, to thee,
Author of liberty,
To thee I sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!
The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.
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.
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two-hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them.
.....
Into the jaws of death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies;
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright;
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King--
Else, wherefore born?
The world will not believe a man repents;
And this wise world of ours is mainly right.
Ye know right well, how meek soe'er he seem,
No keener hunter after glory breathes.
Be patient. Our Playwright may show
In some fifth act what this wild Drama means.
A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart.
The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
