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Wendell Phillips [1811-1884] American

Rank: 101
Activist, Advocate

Wendell Phillips was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer.

Education, Government, Courage, Father's Day, Freedom, Good, Great, Morning, Politics, Power, Religion

Quote	Tags	Rank
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.	Great	101
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.	Father's Day, Good	102
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.		103
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.	Education	104
The heart is the best reflective thinker.		105
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.	Power	106
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.	Education	107
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.		108
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.	Courage	109
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.		110
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.		111
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.		112
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.		113
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.		114
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.		115
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.	Government, Morning	116
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.	Politics, Religion	117
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.		118
Aristocracy is always cruel.		119
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.		120
Responsibility educates.	Education	121
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.		122
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.	Freedom	123
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.		124
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.		125
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.		126
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.	Government	201
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.		202
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.		203
One on God's side is a majority.		204
Christianity is a battle not a dream.		205
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.		206
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.		207
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.		208
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.		209
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.		210
The keener the want the lustier the growth.		211

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