Quotes By 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.

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

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.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.