Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1271 |
| AUTHOR: | James Russell Lowell (1819–91) |
| QUOTATION: | This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Opinions |