Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-6] of 6 Right quotesRight QuotesRight The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.~ Confucius Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason.~ Thomas Jefferson Now all acts of legislature apparently contrary to natural right and justice, are, in our laws, and must be in the nature of things, considered as void. The laws of nature are the laws of God: A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to him from whose punishments they cannot protect us. All human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey. Such have been the adjudications of our courts of justice.~ George Mason We find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another.~ Simmons v. U.S. As the world goes, right is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.~ Thucydides A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority. ~ Booker T. Washington Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print