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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it”
William Penn Quotes |
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“Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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“Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“Don't get it right, just get it written”
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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.”
Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes |
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“To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.”
Confucius Quotes |
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“The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was”
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“Right as a trivet.”
Richard Harris Barham Quotes Source: The Ingoldsby Legends--Auto-da-fe
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“Sir, I would rather be right than be President.”
Henry Clay Quotes Source: Speech--Referring to the Compromise Measure
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“He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they
may.”
Roscoe Conkling Quotes Source: in a speech at the National Convention, in Chicago, 1880, when General Grant was nominated for a thi
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“But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: Tales (tale XV, The Squire and the Priest)
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“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
David (Davy) Crockett Quotes Source: motto in the War of 1812
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“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.”
Henry Erskine Quotes Source: Rule of the Road
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“For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.”
Rev. Frederick William Faber Quotes Source: The Right Must Win (st. 18)
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“A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is
persecuted; he must also be right.”
Stephen Jay Gould Quotes Source: Ever Since Darwin
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“And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the
saying is.”
Nicholas Grimoald (Grimald or Grimalde) Quotes Source: Three Books of Duties to Marcus his Sonne (preface), his translation of Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“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,”
Francis Hutcheson Quotes Source: A System of Moral Philosophy--The General Notions of Rights and Laws Explained (bk. II, ch. III)
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“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.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes Source: in an address at New York City
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“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the right.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes Source: Second Inaugural Address
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“Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (I, 175)
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“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (I, 175)
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“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.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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