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Right as a trivet.
Author: Richard Harris Barham
Source: The Ingoldsby Legends--Auto-da-fe
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Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
Author: Henry Clay
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.
Author: Roscoe Conkling
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.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: Tales (tale XV, The Squire and the Priest)
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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
Author: David (Davy) Crockett
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.
Author: Henry Erskine
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.
Author: Rev. Frederick William Faber
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.
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Source: Ever Since Darwin
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And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the
saying is.
Author: Nicholas Grimoald (Grimald or Grimalde)
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,
Author: Francis Hutcheson
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.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: Second Inaugural Address
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Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (I, 175)
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It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and
astonish the rest.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 289)
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