Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress — Wendell Phillips Care Copy Share Image
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. — Wendell Phillips Ability Copy Share Image
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. — Wendell Phillips Destiny Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. — Wendell Phillips Animal Copy Share Image
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their… — Wendell Phillips Ability Copy Share Image
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no… — Wendell Phillips Integrity Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the… — Wendell Phillips Bunker hill Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Constitution Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Beauty Copy Share Image
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know… — Wendell Phillips Ancients Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Bigotry Copy Share Image
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how… — Wendell Phillips Community Copy Share Image
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Abraham Copy Share Image
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in… — Wendell Phillips Danger Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than… — Wendell Phillips Brain Copy Share Image
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long… — Wendell Phillips Certainty Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Ambition Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Agitation Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
