Every man has the right to be wrong in his opinions, but no man has the right to wrong in his facts.

—Bernard Baruch

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

—General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

The time is always right to do what is right.

—Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

—William Penn

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

—Josh Billings

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

—Seneca

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

—Peter Marshall

If a man has acted right, he has done well, though alone; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

—Henry Fielding

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

—Abraham Lincoln

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

—William J.H. Boetcker