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  • He held, as firmly as Lincoln had held, to the inherent rightmindedness of the "plain people."

    Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

  • And this shews their fundamental sanity and rightmindedness; for a sufficient income is indispensable to the practice of virtue; and the man who will let any unselfish consideration stand between him and its attainment is a weakling, a dupe and a predestined slave.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • It is therefore evident that the first duty of the negro is to see with unequivocal rightmindedness his place and his relation and obligations to society and himself.

    The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

  • Above, I should then respond to the kindness of the heavenly powers in granting me the kingdom; and below, I should extend the line of the imperial descendants and foster rightmindedness.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Something or other in us, either real rightmindedness, or humbug, or hypocrisy, would have obliged us to mix more censure with our liking than most of us do in the case as it stands.

    Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856

  • Something or other in us, either real rightmindedness, or humbug, or hypocrisy, would have obliged us to mix more censure with our liking than most of us do in the case as it stands.

    Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856

  • His keen, shrewd rightmindedness made him appreciate how great an influence the new mode of thought would inevitably exercise on the domestic life, and also on the social and political condition of the nation; and hence many of his poems take up the questions of the honourableness of marriage, the necessity of concession on the part of the rulers, and of love of the commonwealth and readiness to make sacrifices for it on the part of the people of Germany.

    Christian Singers of Germany 1869

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