Quotes of Hobgoblin - somelinesforyou

“ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. ”

- R.W. Emerson

“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day… ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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