Famous Quotes

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

Wendell Phillips on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Wendell Phillips

• "Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."

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

• "Responsibility educates."

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

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