"To hear some men talk of the government,……" — Wendell Phillips
"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."
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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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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends…
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his…
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number…
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