Quotes by Phillips, Wendell

"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."

Phillips, Wendell on education   

"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

Phillips, Wendell on failure
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"One on God's side is a majority."

Phillips, Wendell on god   

"The heart is the best reflective thinker."

Phillips, Wendell on art   

"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship"

Phillips, Wendell on imitation   

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"Aristocracy is always cruel."

Phillips, Wendell on aristocracy   

"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."

Phillips, Wendell on opinions   

"Power is every stealing from the many to the few."

Phillips, Wendell on power   

"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

Phillips, Wendell on praise
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"What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."

Phillips, Wendell on puritans   

"Responsibility educates."

Phillips, Wendell on responsibility   

"Revolutions are not made, they come."

Phillips, Wendell on evolution   

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"Revolutions never go backward."

Phillips, Wendell on evolution   

"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."

Phillips, Wendell on books - reading   

"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."

Phillips, Wendell on causes   

"Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."

Phillips, Wendell on reason   

"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."

Phillips, Wendell on victory   

"The keener the want the lustier the growth."

Phillips, Wendell on want   

"On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations."

Phillips, Wendell on words   

"Christianity is a battle not a dream."

Phillips, Wendell on christians and christianity
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of libertypower is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand entrusted with power becomes the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity. "

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