"Power is every stealing from the many to…" — Wendell Phillips
"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."
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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
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- The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
- To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
- What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
- Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
- Revolutions never go backwards.
- No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
- Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
- Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
- Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
- Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
- There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
- Revolutions are not made, they come.