The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
If you drive with a whip or a thong;
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The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
If you drive with a whip or a thong;
If you go to the left you are sure to be right,
If you go to the right you are wrong.

Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]

Might was the measure of right.
[Lat., Mensuraque juris
Vis erat.]

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see read more

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in
the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let
us to the end dare to read more

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let
us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the
universal good; and when one's acting in read more

For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the
universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has
this tendency he has a right thus to act.
- Francis Hutcheson,

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.

No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.