Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
415
AUTHOR:
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
QUOTATION:
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
ATTRIBUTION:
Attributed to THOMAS CARLYLE, by Wendell Phillips, in “The Scholar in a Republic,” address at the centennial anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 30, 1881.—Carlos Martyn, Wendell Phillips, the Agitator, p. 581 (1890). Unverified.
