Quotes About Right

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best, ' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.