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… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share
