Wendell Phillips

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

“Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.”

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

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

“Aristocracy is always cruel.”

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

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

“Christianity is a battle not a dream.”

“Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.”

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

“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”

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

“Power is every stealing from the many to the few.”

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

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

“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.”

“The heart is the best reflective thinker.”

“Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.”

“The keener the want the lustier the growth.”

“Responsibility educates.”