Wendell Phillips Quotes (15 quotations)
1. Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. - Wendell Phillips
2. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - power is ever stealing from the many to the few. - Wendell Phillips
3. 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
4. Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. - Wendell Phillips
5. Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. - Wendell Phillips
6. Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. - Wendell Phillips
7. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. - Wendell Phillips
8. 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
9. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. - Wendell Phillips
10. Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. - Wendell Phillips
11. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. - Wendell Phillips
12. Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear. - Wendell Phillips
13. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. - Wendell Phillips
14. What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Phillips
15. Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. - Wendell Phillips
2. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - power is ever stealing from the many to the few. - Wendell Phillips
3. 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
4. Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. - Wendell Phillips
5. Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. - Wendell Phillips
6. Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. - Wendell Phillips
7. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. - Wendell Phillips
8. 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
9. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. - Wendell Phillips
10. Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. - Wendell Phillips
11. Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. - Wendell Phillips
12. Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear. - Wendell Phillips
13. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. - Wendell Phillips
14. What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. - Wendell Phillips
15. Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. - Wendell Phillips
