All Wendell Phillips Quotes
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… Agitation
- Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not… Ancients
- Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There… Ago
- Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. Agitation
- Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Been
- Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. Ability
- The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. Brings
- You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. All
- Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes! Any
- Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you… Civil Disobedience
- We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. Government
- Aristocracy is always cruel. Always Cruel
- Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Breeds
- What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. Corny
- On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. Destiny
- What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Action
- The heart is the best logician. Best
- Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. Always Precedes
- Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. Few
- The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. Business
- Every man meets his Waterloo at last. Defeat
- The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any. Any
- The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. Bad
- Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Absolute
- The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited… Careless