Wendell Phillips Quotes

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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

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

One on God's side is a majority.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

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

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

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

Christianity is a battle not a dream

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.

Revolutions are not made they come.

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

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

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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

One on God's side is a majority.

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

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

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

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

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