Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy is always cruel.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

One on God's side is a majority.

— Wendell Phillips

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

— Wendell Phillips

Responsibility educates.

— Wendell Phillips

Revolutions are not made, they come.

— Wendell Phillips

Revolutions never go backward.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Wendell Phillips

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.

— Wendell Phillips