Wendell Phillips Quotes

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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

Responsibility educates.

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

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

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

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation,...

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

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Christianity is a battle not a dream

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - t...

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and fin...

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves i...

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake t...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all...

One on God's side is a majority.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - ...

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

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stak...

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Cong...

Revolutions are not made they come.

One on God's side is a majority.

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

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope...

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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