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
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed. — Wendell Phillips Immoral 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
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
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
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 republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Constitution 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 Discussion Copy Share Image
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. — Wendell Phillips Culture Copy Share Image
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. — Wendell Phillips Health 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
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips Law 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
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Done Copy Share Image
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. — Wendell Phillips Greatness 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
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
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. — Wendell Phillips Bad laws Copy Share Image
