Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
38 Quotes
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
Wendell Phillips
"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."
Wendell Phillips
"Responsibility educates."
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
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
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
"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
Wendell Phillips
"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
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
"Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming."
Wendell Phillips
"Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake."
Wendell Phillips
"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake."
Wendell Phillips
"As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
"Power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
Wendell Phillips
"Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm."
Wendell Phillips
"Politics is but the common pulse beat."
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
"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
"One on God's side is a majority."
Wendell Phillips
"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion."
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