Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of… — Wendell Phillips 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 Copy Share Image
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips 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 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
