Wendell Phillips Quotes

American - Activist | November 29, 1811 - February 2, 1884

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

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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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

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

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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

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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.

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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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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.

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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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