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
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. — Wendell Phillips 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 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
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world — Wendell Phillips 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
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from… — Wendell Phillips 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 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
