“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”

Last update Oct. 1, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!" by Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln photo
Abraham Lincoln 618
16th President of the United States 1809–1865

Related quotes

Peter F. Hamilton photo
Ezra Taft Benson photo

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”

Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Cinda Williams Chima photo

“You cannot give an official power to do right without at the same time giving him power to do wrong.”

Leonard D. White (1891–1958) American historian

Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 144

Andrew Biersack photo
Alex Salmond photo

“There is nothing wrong with Scotland that cannot be fixed by what is right with Scotland.”

Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland

Paraphrase of Bill Clinton's "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)

Theodore Roosevelt photo

“When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can or cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think it wrong.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)
Context: When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can or cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think it wrong. We should hold the judiciary in all respect; but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of anyone else.

Mark Twain photo

Related topics