Talk:Might makes right
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[edit] Turnabout by Abe Lincoln
I think a reference to Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address could fit here. It end with the reversed phrase Right makes Might. Actually:
LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.
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Lent 20:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
might makes right.. it's the fact that anybody can change any of this stuff that all three definitions of this philosophical concept note it's use in a positive sense, whereas the expression is basically a negative one (in at least one of its primary meanings).
