"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is……" — Wendell Phillips
"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips has 77 quotes on this site.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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