Liberty Quotes by Wendell Phillips

Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

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

— Wendell Phillips

Every government is always growing corrupt.

— Wendell Phillips

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

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

— Wendell Phillips

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

— Wendell Phillips

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

— Wendell Phillips

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

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