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Wendell Phillips Quotes

Type:
Activist Quotes
Category:
American Activist Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 29, 1811
Date of Death:
February 2, 1884
Nationality:
American
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Wendell Phillips

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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

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

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Wendell Phillips

The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

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

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

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

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

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips

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

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

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

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

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


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