Wendell Phillips was a famous Activist from USA, who lived between November 29, 1811 and February 2, 1884. He/she became 72 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism.
Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Wendell, under the main topics: Government - Dad.
33 Famous quotes by Wendell Phillips
"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage"
"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms"
"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause"
"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake"
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few"
"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics"
"Aristocracy is always cruel"
"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship"
"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment"
"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"
"Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors"
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government"
"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress"
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them"
"The keener the want the lustier the growth"
"The heart is the best reflective thinker"
"Responsibility educates"
"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living"
"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies"
"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains"
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories"
"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise"
"Christianity is a battle not a dream"
"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency"
"The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth"
"Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion"
"If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack"
"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people"
"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism"
"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers"
"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator"
"Power is every stealing from the many to the few"
