All Wendell Phillips Quotes
- If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. Cause
- If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack. Crack
- The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative… Agitation
- Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress Care
- Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. Ask
- It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world Currents
- Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming. Coming
- I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. All
- Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Accountability
- Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. Corrupt
- To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. Aggravation
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Eternal
- Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. Big
- Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. Civil Rights
- What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. Book
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Best
- Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means… Expects
- Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half. Deepest
- The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. American
- Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. Any
- The heart is the best reflective thinker. Best
- Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. Chains
- Power is every stealing from the many to the few. Every Stealing
- Responsibility educates. Educates
- How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality Compete