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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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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

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

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

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.

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.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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...

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

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.

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

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem...

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem...

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent...

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent...

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.