Wendell Phillips
» Books and Reading » “What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
» Causes » “If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.”
» Christians and Christianity » “Christianity is a battle not a dream.”
» Education » “The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
» Failure » “What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”
» God » “One on God’s side is a majority.”
» Heart » “The heart is the best reflective thinker.”
» Imitation » “To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship”
» Opinions » “Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.”
» Power » “Power is every stealing from the many to the few.”
» Praise » “Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.”
» Puritans » “What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
» Responsibility » “Responsibility educates.”
» Revolutions and Revolutionaries » “Revolutions are not made, they come.”
» Revolutions and Revolutionaries » “Revolutions never go backward.”
» Treason » “Write on my gravestone: ”Infidel, Traitor.”–infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
» Want » “The keener the want the lustier the growth.”
» Words » “On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.”
