Wendell Phillips Quotes

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

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 the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. - Wendell Phillips

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. - Wendell Phillips

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

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

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. - Wendell Phillips

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. - Wendell Phillips

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

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

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