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