Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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,...

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...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

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...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

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...

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

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,...

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

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...

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.