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

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.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let
us to the end dare to read more

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.

Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]

Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]

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,

Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and
astonish the rest.

Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and
astonish the rest.

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.