Wendell Phillips Quotes
Top 86 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
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.
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
God gives manhood but one clew to success,
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated ... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.