Doing What Is Right Quotes

Do the right thing because it is right.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

Our duty is to stand up for those who do the right thing.

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Let justice be done though the world perish.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Sacrifice is putting country before party and principles before politics. It is not defending the indefensible, protecting the powerful, or staying silent in the face of injustice just because you'd like to keep your job.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

You should just do the right thing.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.