Quotes by Wendell Phillips

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

“How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.”

“When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.”

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

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

“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”

“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.”

“Responsibility educates.”

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

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

“You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.”

“Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.”

“Revolutions are not made they come.”

“Christianity is a battle not a dream”

“Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.”

“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.”

“Every man meets his Waterloo at last.”

“What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.”

“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.”

“One on God's side is a majority.”