Quotes By Wendell Phillips

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Responsibility educates.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

One on God's side is a majority.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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

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.

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

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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.

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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