Quotes about Right
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
— Henry David Thoreau
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
— Henry David Thoreau
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
— James Madison
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.
— Jerry Falwell
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
— Oscar Romero
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
— George W. Bush
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
— Hannah More
The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.
— Grover Cleveland