Wendell Phillips Quotes

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

Courage, Moral, Bravery

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips

Education, Educates

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

Debt, Corrupt, Disease

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.
Wendell Phillips

Government, Men, Law

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

Power, Liberty, Few

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

Government, Business, Fear

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips

After, Boredom, Criticism

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Wendell Phillips

Create, Ability, Meet

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips

Few, Praise, Flatter

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

Hope, Truth, After

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips

Religion, Politics, Difference

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Thought, Arms, Precedes

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips

Power, Few, Stealing

The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Wendell Phillips

Best, Heart, Thinker

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.
Wendell Phillips

Life, Great, Men

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

War, Mind, Done

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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Education, Nothing, Defeat

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips

Brains, Atmosphere, Agitation

Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips

Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips

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

Made, Progress, Step

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

Friends, Rich, Few

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

Universe, Stand, Discussion

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Great, Cause, Orator

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

Nothing, Law, Living

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: November 29, 1811

Died: February 2, 1884

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