"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to……" — Wendell Phillips
"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."
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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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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And…
— Michele Bachmann
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I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.
— Michael Badnarik
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
— Julianna Baggott
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together…
— Russell Baker
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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were…
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
— Charles Barkley
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
— Karl Barth
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