Quotes By Wendell Phillips

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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

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

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Responsibility educates.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

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

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

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

One on God's side is a majority.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.