“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
A Short History of England (1917)
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61
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