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Wendell Phillips Quotes

Wendell Phillips quotes

American Activist November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884

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Wendell Phillips quote: "If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause."
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much..."
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Power is every stealing from the many to the few."
Power is every stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever..."
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the..."
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. 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
Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.-infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now..."
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in..."
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and..."
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action."
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of..."
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "The keener the want the lustier the growth."
The keener the want the lustier the growth. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Every step of progress the world has made has been from..."
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips quote: "Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered..."
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips

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