Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
– Wendell Phillips
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
– Wendell Phillips
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
– Wendell Phillips
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
– Wendell Phillips
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
– Wendell Phillips
One on God's side is a majority.
– Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
– Wendell Phillips
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
– Wendell Phillips
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
– 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
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.
– Wendell Phillips
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
– Wendell Phillips
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
– Wendell Phillips
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.
– Wendell Phillips
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
– Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
– 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
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
– Wendell Phillips
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
– Wendell Phillips
Responsibility educates.
– Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
– Wendell Phillips
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.