“Had he been right or was he just another visionary?”
Robert Sheckley book Watchbird
Watchbird (p. 44)
Short fiction, Notions: Unlimited (1960)
“But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.”
Tale xv, "The Squire and the Priest". Compare: "For right is right, since God is God", Frederick William Faber, The Right must win.
Tales in Verse (1812)
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