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
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips Care 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
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long… — Wendell Phillips Certainty 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
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their… — Wendell Phillips Ability 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
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how… — Wendell Phillips Community Copy Share Image
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. — Wendell Phillips Destiny Copy Share Image
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no… — Wendell Phillips Integrity 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
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Arms 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
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
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. — Wendell Phillips Animal Copy Share Image
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips Beats Copy Share Image
