Right Quotes - page 12

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. (John Updike)

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Bill Clinton

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained Those by death are few by resignations, none. Usually quoted Few die and none resign.

Thomas Jefferson

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

James Madison

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

John Lennon

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...

Robert A. Heinlein

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. (Thomas Paine)

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

William Hazlitt

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold Macmillan

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Blaise Pascal

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

Henry David Thoreau

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Ayn Rand

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Truman Capote

I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.

Truman Capote

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. (W. Somerset Maugham)

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frédéric Bastiat

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

George Sutherland

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

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