The Republican party is the ship. All else is the open sea.
- Topic: Perception
- Location: Battle Rock, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Frederick Douglass
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
The more I study science the more I believe in God.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
