Right Quotes

A right delayed is a right denied.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

When, for decades, you have been able to make a man compromise his manhood by threatening him with a cruel and unjust punishment, and when suddenly he turns upon you and says: "Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know that I am right and you are wrong," you hardly know what to do. You feel defeated and secretly ashamed.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

Steady losing means you ain't using what you really think is right.

Especially when you've got your own mail route, day after day, it was an easy place to write. It was like going to a library with no books. You're afforded to just go do your job, and you don't really even have to think about it. You know you're on the right street and you're at the right house, and you're putting the mail in the right box. That's where I wrote a lot of the early songs, walking on the mail route.