“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”

“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”

“Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes.”

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future.”

“Blair likes to say that his party is best when it is bold. So is he--and when he has an unconflicted view of the right and wrong of an issue.”

“If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.”

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?”

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”