Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress — Wendell Phillips Care 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 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
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
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
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. — Wendell Phillips Anxiety Copy Share Image
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know… — Wendell Phillips Consideration Copy Share Image
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Always 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
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. — Wendell Phillips Ability Copy Share Image
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. — Wendell Phillips Belief 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
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
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. — Wendell Phillips Action 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
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips Fanaticism Copy Share Image
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. — Wendell Phillips Government Copy Share Image
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
