Competing Claims

Famous quotes containing the words competing and/or claims:

“The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.”
—Apocrypha. 1 Esdras, 3:10-12.

Referring to “three young men” of the bodyguard of Darius, king of the Persians, competing for his favor.

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)