Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

 —Mark Twain

 

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong — or absolutely right.

—Albert Guinon

 

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

 

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

 

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

 —Seneca

 

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

 

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

 

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

 —Anthony J. D’Angelo

 

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

 

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

 

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life — the children; those who are in the twilight of life — the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life — the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

—Hubert Humphrey

 

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

 —John Stuart Mill