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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Revolutions never go backward.
Wendell Phillips
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Wendell Phillips
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips
Write on my gravestone ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips
Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
Wendell Phillips
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Wendell Phillips
The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
Wendell Phillips
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
The best education in the world is that by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward.
Wendell Phillips
[T]he Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.
Wendell Phillips
He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
Wendell Phillips
The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
Wendell Phillips
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