“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.”
– Wendell Phillips
“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
– Wendell Phillips
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
– 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
“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
“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”
– Wendell Phillips
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
– 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
“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”
– Wendell Phillips
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
– Wendell Phillips
“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Responsibility educates.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
– Wendell Phillips
“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”
– Wendell Phillips