Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming. — Wendell Phillips Delay Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Education Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips Eternal Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Gossip 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… — Wendell Phillips Assemblage Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Books 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… — Wendell Phillips Acknowledge Copy Share Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Beats Copy Share Image
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Firsts Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Bones Copy Share Image
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Discipline Copy Share Image
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips Lying 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… — Wendell Phillips Great political 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… — Wendell Phillips Civil disobedience Copy Share Image
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 Done Copy Share Image
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. — Wendell Phillips Betrayal Copy Share Image
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips Agitation 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 American civil war Copy Share Image
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. — Wendell Phillips Education Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Bigotry Copy Share Image
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. — Wendell Phillips Creeps Copy Share Image
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. — Wendell Phillips Father 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 Brain Copy Share Image
