Wendell Phillips

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

“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”

“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”

“Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.”

“One on God's side is a majority.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”

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

“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.”

“How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.”