„There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.“

— Woodrow Wilson
„If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.“
— Barack Obama
„It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong. Impartiality does not mean neutrality. Impartial justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.“
— Zhuangzi
„The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.“
— Ayn Rand