Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. — 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 epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God… — 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 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
