Correct

Famous quotes containing the word correct:

“who knows when what correct young woman must take up her body
And fly”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)

“It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts—constantly persisted in—by the exercise of the pardoning power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)