If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.