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Type: Activist Quotes Category: American Activist Quotes Date of Birth: November 29, 1811 Date of Death: February 2, 1884 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Wendell Phillips Related Authors: Gloria Steinem Phyllis Schlafly Constance Baker Motley Jack Kevorkian Louis Farrakhan Patricia Ireland Jesse Jackson |
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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