Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. — Wendell Phillips Every step Copy Share Image
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress — Wendell Phillips Changing Copy Share Image
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips Acquire Copy Share Image
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips Law Copy Share Image
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Arms Copy Share Image
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips Carlyle Copy Share Image
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. — Wendell Phillips Asks Copy Share Image
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people — Wendell Phillips Depravity Copy Share Image
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals.… — Wendell Phillips Agitation Copy Share Image
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated… There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. — Wendell Phillips Constant Copy Share Image
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia,… — Wendell Phillips Asia 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
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips Blood 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
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality — Wendell Phillips Death 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 penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington. — Wendell Phillips Country Copy Share Image
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. — Wendell Phillips Anxiety Copy Share Image
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. — Wendell Phillips Government Copy Share Image
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. — Wendell Phillips Father Copy Share Image
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. — Wendell Phillips Politics Copy Share Image
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Always Copy Share Image
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. — Wendell Phillips Action Copy Share Image
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him. — Wendell Phillips Down and Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack. — Wendell Phillips Crack Copy Share Image
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Puritan Copy Share Image
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world — Wendell Phillips Currents Copy Share Image
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Firsts 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
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips Agitation Copy Share Image
