Wendell Phillips Quotes

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• The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful,…
• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
• Revolutions never go backwards.
• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they…
• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
• Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or…
• Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
• There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;…
• Revolutions are not made, they come.
• Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
• One on God's side is a majority.
• Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are…
• Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
• Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of…
• The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs…
• Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

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