Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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 you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Wendell Phillips
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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
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
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
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Type:
Activist
Date of Birth:
1811-11-29
Year of Death:
1884
Nationality:
American |
