It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine… — Wendell Phillips Agree Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Beauty Copy Share Image
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. — Wendell Phillips Adam 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
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips Acquire Copy Share Image
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the… — Wendell Phillips Bunker hill 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
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world — Wendell Phillips Currents Copy Share Image
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. — Wendell Phillips Know how Copy Share Image
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress — Wendell Phillips Political Copy Share Image
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. — Wendell Phillips Politics Copy Share Image
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Puritan 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
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 Behinds Copy Share Image
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That… — Wendell Phillips Class 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
