Wendell Phillips Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

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

  Wendell Phillips

  Truth, Blood, Forever

  Wendell Phillips (1859). “Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker”, p.6

• The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  Wendell Phillips

  Community, Liberty, Doe

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

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Law, Public Opinion

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.264

• Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

  Wendell Phillips

  Believe, Giving, Doe

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.226

• Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

  Wendell Phillips

  Lying, Opinion, Popularity

• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

• Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  Wendell Phillips

  Law, Land, Yesterday

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.264

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