Author: Wendell Phillips

Quotes

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

- Wendell Phillips

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Wendell Phillips

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

- Wendell Phillips

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