Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips

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

Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

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

One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips