What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. — Wendell Phillips Action Copy Share Image
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips Law Copy Share Image
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. — Wendell Phillips 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 Copy Share Image
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and… — Wendell Phillips Civil disobedience Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the… — Wendell Phillips Bunker hill Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Constitution Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Beauty 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 Ancients Copy Share Image
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. — Wendell Phillips Destiny Copy Share Image
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. — Wendell Phillips Ability Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. — Wendell Phillips Animal Copy Share Image
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. — Wendell Phillips Bad laws Copy Share Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips Care Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips 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
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Discipline Copy Share Image
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. — Wendell Phillips Health Copy Share Image
