Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. — Wendell Phillips Big business Copy Share Image
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. — Wendell Phillips Greatness Copy Share Image
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. — Wendell Phillips Belief Copy Share Image
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Best education Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Books Copy Share Image
It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine… — Wendell Phillips 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
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
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. — Wendell Phillips Betrayal 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
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 Copy Share Image
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. — Wendell Phillips American people Copy Share Image
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. — Wendell Phillips Agitation Copy Share Image
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. — Wendell Phillips Culture Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips Eternal Copy Share Image
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Puritan Copy Share Image
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few… — Wendell Phillips Government Copy Share Image
Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets… — Wendell Phillips Congress Copy Share Image
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That… — Wendell Phillips Class Copy Share Image
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell… — Wendell Phillips American civil war Copy Share Image
Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of… — Wendell Phillips 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 Copy Share Image
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
