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No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes read more
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the
universal good; and when one's acting in read more
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,
The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
If you drive with a whip or a thong;
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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.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.