"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power……" — Wendell Phillips
"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 each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity."
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Wendell Phillips
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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips has 77 quotes on this site.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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More Agitation Quotes
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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The…
— Alfred Adler
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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up…
— Lord Byron
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
— John Dewey
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and…
— Dalai Lama
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let…
— Dalai Lama
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
— Edward Hoagland
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a…
— Judith Orloff
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I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between…
— Thomas Jefferson
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment;…
— Calvin Coolidge
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It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that,…
— Danielle LaPorte
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