20 Quotes By Wendell Phillips


Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips on business

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips on courage

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips on education

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips on education

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips on education

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips on fear

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 on government

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips on government

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips on government

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips on history

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips on hope

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Wendell Phillips on knowledge

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips on morning

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips on politics

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips on power

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips on religion

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips on war

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Wendell Phillips on fathers day

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips on government

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips on knowledge