It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips 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 the changing… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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 Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
