Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it

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.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see read more

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
All read more

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.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is
persecuted; he must also be right.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is
persecuted; he must also be right.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

Don't get it right, just get it written

Don't get it right, just get it written

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,