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

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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...

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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...

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

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

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

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.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and...

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and...

In America, theres a failure to appreciate Europes leading role in the world.

In America, theres a failure to appreciate Europes leading role in the world.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort...

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort...

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great