Well I know what's right, I got just one life. In a world that keeps on pushin' me around, but I'll stand my ground and I won't back down.

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down. You could stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around. And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down, gonna stand my ground and I won't back down.

And no I can't find no reason to explain the way that I feel. I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.

My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long and slow growth and are firmly rooted. But the great blow which fell …

Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.