Wendell Phillips Quotes
"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Knowledge, Grace)
"The heart is the best reflective thinker."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Heart)
"The keener the want the lustier the growth."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Growth, Want)
"The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Power, People, Wealth, American, Labor, Protest)
"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Fathers, Imitation)
"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
(Related: Men, Government, Congress, Law, Talk)
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Business, Government, Fear, Today)
"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
(Related: Men, Talent, Life, Obedience, Succeed)
"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Power)
"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: War, Mind, Press, Printing)
"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Education, Defeat, First, Nothing)
"What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Fanaticism, Today, Tomorrow)
"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Thought, Action, World)
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Liberty, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Truth, Hope, American, Presidency)
"Responsibility educates."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Responsibility)
"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Truth, Blood, Moods, Opinion)
"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
(Related: Enemies, Friends, Rights)
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Courage, Bravery, Instinct)
"Aristocracy is always cruel."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Aristocracy)
"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Boredom, Criticism)
"Christianity is a battle not a dream."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Dream, Christianity, Battle)
"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: People, Debt, Disease, First)
"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Politics, Religion, Difference, Quarrels)
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Power, Liberty, Vigilance)
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Ability)
"If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Universe)
"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Cause, First, Want)
"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Thought)
"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Law, Living, Nothing, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Care, Congress, Newspapers)
"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Praise)
"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Education, Living, World)
"One on God's side is a majority."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: God, Majority)
"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Agitation)
"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
- Wendell Phillips
(Related: Progress, World)