Famous Quotes

Quotes by Wendell Phillips

• 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.
• Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
• Responsibility educates.
• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
• 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.
• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
• We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
• What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.