Wendell Phillips famous quotes

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Stronger #Prejudice #Humans

Every government is always growing corrupt.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Government #Growing

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Education #Sports #Firsts

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

#Mean #People #Noble

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

#Animal #Bravery #Accountability

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.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Past #Growth #Revolution

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

#Education #Struggle #World

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Games #Play #Common Sense

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Inspirational #Dream #Battle

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Freedom #Jealous #People

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.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Christian #Real #Teaching

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Differences #Religion #Quarrels

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

#Rights #Government #Political

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Past #Heritage #Harvest

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

#War #Book #Reading

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

#Government #Today #Bigs

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

#Liberty #Stealing #Vigilance

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

#Tyrants #Government #People

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Praise

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Believe #Giving #Speech

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Fighting #Government #Ideas

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Mind #Despair #Care

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

#Fathers Day #Father #Imitation

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

#Law #Public Opinion #Opinion

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
-- Wendell Phillips

#Moving #Men #Ideas

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Ideas #Gossip #Mind

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

#Caring #Care #Pulpit

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Grace #Phrases #Agitation

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

#Cracks #Discussion #Universe

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Men #Destiny #Lasts

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

#Firsts #Causes #Want

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

#Truth #Blood #Forever

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Quality #Genius #Quantity

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Father #Pieces #Cracks

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
-- Wendell Phillips

#Lying #Opinion #Popularity

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Justice #Giving #Guarantees

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Justice #Rate

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
-- Wendell Phillips

#College #Church #Literature

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Taken #Sleep #Men

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Sex #Real #Ambition

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Men #Greatness #Trifles

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
-- Wendell Phillips

#War #Thunder #Niagara

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Law #Land #Yesterday

Hearts are stronger than swords.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Heart #Stronger

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Children #Government #Self

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Mind #Littles #Easy

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Crazy #Destiny #Europe

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
-- Wendell Phillips

#War #Reading #Men

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Moving #Progress #World

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Thinking #Soul #Religion

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Political #Progress #Revolution

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
-- Wendell Phillips

#America #Rocks #Plymouth

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Men #Advice #Causes

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
-- Wendell Phillips

#Animal #Worry #Forever