Words matter. These are the best Wendell Phillips Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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.
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Responsibility educates.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
If there is anything in the universe that can’t stand discussion, let it crack.
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.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
