Right quotes
Allen Woody 1935
All You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
Anonymous
Let's all give God a great big hand. I've seen the last page of the Bible and it's all going to turn out all right.
Anonymous
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bankhead Tallulah 1903-1968
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Billings Josh 1818-1885
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
Pippa Passes
The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in his heaven -
All's right with the world!
Butler Samuel 1835-1902
The Way of All Flesh
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Chaussée Nivelle de la 1692-1754
La Gouvernante
When everyone is wrong, everyone is right.
Chesterfield Lord 1694-1773
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals.
The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Churchill Lord Randolph 1849-1894
Ulster will fight; Ulster will be right.
Clay Henry 1777-1852
(to Senator Preston of South Carolina)
I had rather be right than be President.
Cowper William 1731-1800
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Davies Robertson 1913-1995
Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.
Decatur Stephen 1779-1820
(toast)
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Einstein Albert 1879-1955
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Eliot George 1819-1880
To be right in great and memorable moments is perhaps the thing we should most desire for ourselves.
Humphrey Hubert 1911-1978
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Huxley Thomas 1825-1895
If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should close instantly with the offer.
Ibsen Henrik 1828-1906
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Ingersoll Robert G. 1833-1899
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Johnson Lyndon B. 1908-1973
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
‘In the Neolithic Age'
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
And - every - single - one - of - them - is - right!
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
MacDiarmid Hugh 1892-1978
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur
Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken
To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' right
That damns the vast majority o' men.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... ‘Milton'(about Puritans)
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Mosley Sir Oswald 1896-1980
I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Nevill Dorothy d.1913
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Nixon Richard 1913-1994
The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.
Pankhurst Dame Christabel 1880-1958
Votes for Women
We are here to claim our right as women, not only to be free, but to fight for freedom. That it is our right as well as our duty.
Parnell Charles Stewart 1846-1891
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
The Dunciad
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
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'.
Quincy Josiah 1772-1864
Abridgement of Debates of Congress
As it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Rayner Clare
I always say I don't think everyone has the right to happiness or to be loved. Even the Americans have written into their constitution that you have the right to the „pursuit of happiness". You have the right to try but that's all.
Schurz Carl 1829-1906
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right!
Socrates 469-399 BC
In Plato - Crito
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong; or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
Stanfield Robert
He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing, nor left wing nor any wing.
Szasz Thomas
The Second Sin ‘Childhood'
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Szasz Thomas
The Second Sin ‘Social Relations'
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Talleyrand Charles Maurice de 1754-1838
The art of putting theright men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.
Truman Harry S. 1884-1972
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectualcapacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.
Weinberger Harry
The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
White E.B. 1899-1985
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious that peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.
Wilson Woodrow 1856-1924
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
