Wendell Phillips Quotes

» To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

» We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

» Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

» Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

» Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

» The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

» Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

» Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

» Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

» Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

» Aristocracy is always cruel.

» What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

» If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

» What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

» One on God's side is a majority.

» The heart is the best reflective thinker.

» To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

» Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

» Christianity is a battle not a dream.

» Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

» The keener the want the lustier the growth.

» Responsibility educates.

» Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

» Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

» What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

» Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

» Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

» If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

» Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

» Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

» Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

» Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

» What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

» Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

» You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

» The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

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