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Fiat justitia, pereat coelum. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. See Decatur 258:8, Ferdinand I 320:1.

-Adams,John Quincy
  Letter to  John  Adams,1  Aug.

I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight, Keep your eye on the prize, Hold on, hold on!

-Anonymous
Civil rights song, quoted in  Juan Williams Eye on the Prize (1987).

Harold Macmillan held his party together by not allowing his left wing to see what his right wing was doing.

-Baroness
Attributed.

I said to Heart,'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!' But it lied.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  'The False Heart'.

An editor must always be with the peopleöthink with themöfeel with themöand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightöalways be strongöalways free.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the Courier and Enquirer,12 Nov.

An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

-Bentham,Jeremy
Principles of the Civil Code, pt.1, ch.13, final note. Collected in John Bowring (ed)  Works (1838^43), vol.1.

Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis18:25.

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges17:6.

The L said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms110:1.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs14:12.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lpondereth the hearts.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD Proverbs 21:2.

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 30:21.

   It is meet and right so to do.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion, versicles and responses.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

-Brown, Rita Mae
  Speech, 28  Aug, at the opening ceremony of the Gay Olympics, San Francisco.

The year's at the spring, And days 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 heavenö All's right with the world.

-Browning, Robert
Pippa Passes, pt.1.

In the great right of an excessive wrong.

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.3, l.1055.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

-Browning, Robert
  Asolando, epilogue.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

-Buffett,Warren Edward
  In Fortune, 4  Apr.

Whatevereachmancanseparatelydo, withouttrespassing upon others, he has a right to dofor himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all whichsociety, with all its combination of skill and force, can do in his favour.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

He turn'd him right and round about, Upon the Irish shore, And gae his bridle reins a shake, With, Adieu for evermore, my dear, And Adieu for evermore!

-Burns, Robert
  'It was a' for our rightfu' king', stanza 3.

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