Author: Wendell Phillips

Quotes

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

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

- Wendell Phillips

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

- Wendell Phillips

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

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

- Wendell Phillips

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

- Wendell Phillips

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.

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

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

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

- Wendell Phillips

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

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

- Wendell Phillips

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

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

- Wendell Phillips

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

- Wendell Phillips

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