Right Quotes

You have so often been right that it is perfectly possible that I am wrong…

[It is] ... a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.

The strongest is never strong enough to always be the master unless he transforms strength into right…

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.

There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

God’s Politics: Why the Right gets it wrong and the Left doesn’t get it.

I believe in the idea of sacrifice and fighting for what's right and giving something back to the country that's given me so much.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in this faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.