Wendell Phillips Quotes

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
Wendell Phillips
Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
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
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
Wendell Phillips
Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
Wendell Phillips
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
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Wendell Phillips
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream
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Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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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.
Wendell Phillips
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips