Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.