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One Quotes by Wendell Phillips
- One on God's side is a majority.
- Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
- 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…
- How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
- Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
- The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative…
- Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
- Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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