The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. — Wendell Phillips Culture 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
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. — Wendell Phillips Greatness Copy Share Image
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed. — Wendell Phillips Immoral Copy Share Image
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. — Wendell Phillips Flatter Copy Share Image
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. — Wendell Phillips Better Copy Share Image
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. — Wendell Phillips Belief Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Best education Copy Share Image
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality — Wendell Phillips Death Copy Share Image
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that… — Wendell Phillips Form Copy Share Image
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate… — Wendell Phillips China Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past.… — Wendell Phillips Foundation 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
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that… — Wendell Phillips Careless 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
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the… — Wendell Phillips Given 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
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
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Discipline 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
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. — Wendell Phillips Health 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
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it. — Wendell Phillips Advice Copy Share Image
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few… — Wendell Phillips Government 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
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. — Wendell Phillips Debt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
