Right Quotes - page 17

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. View quote
Jules Verne
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things. View quote
Henry Fielding
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. View quote
Bill Watterson
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect. View quote
Agatha Christie
Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. View quote
Alan Watts
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it. (Henry George)
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. View quote
Jane Austen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong. View quote
Jane Austen
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence. View quote
John Brunner
The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right. View quote
John Muir
When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right. View quote
Phil Ochs
I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. (Al Sharpton)
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. View quote
Hart Crane
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. View quote
John Tukey
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. View quote
William Faulkner
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. View quote
Bertolt Brecht