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.

All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
All read more

All Nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is is 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,

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

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

For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would read more

For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

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.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.