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