Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Bones Copy Share Image
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips Care Copy Share Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Beats Copy Share Image
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. — Wendell Phillips Bad laws Copy Share Image
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. — Wendell Phillips Big business Copy Share Image
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. — Wendell Phillips Health Copy Share Image
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips Fanaticism 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
Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still… — Wendell Phillips Carts 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 Experience 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
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
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips Expediency Copy Share Image
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips American people 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 Congress 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 Believe Copy Share Image
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long… — Wendell Phillips Certainty 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
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of… — Wendell Phillips Abraham Copy Share Image
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in… — Wendell Phillips Danger 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 Community 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
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Agitation 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
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Broads 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
