All Wendell Phillips Quotes
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.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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