Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell Phillips
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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 there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips
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