Wendell Phillips Quotes (50 Quotes)

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

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

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

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

Write on my gravestone ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

One on God's side is a majority.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

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

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality

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

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

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

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

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

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

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

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

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

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

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

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

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

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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.

The keener the wheat the lustier the growth.

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

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

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Revolutions are not made they come.

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

Responsibility educates.

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

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

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.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.