Wendell Phillips Quotes

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

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

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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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

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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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