Wendell Phillips Quotes
An American abolitionist, Native American advocate and orator.
(1811 - 1884)
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Agitation is the method that plants the school by the side of the ballot box.
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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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As health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
[Distrust]
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As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."
[Praise]
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
[Decisions]
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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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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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
[Destiny]
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
[Progress]
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
[Courage]
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects success in the future by the same means which secured it in the past.
[Experience]
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God gives manhood but one clue to success, utter and exact justice; that, he guarantees, shall be always expediency.
[Justice]
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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts, and crutches. The need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. - All overmuch governing kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
[Government]
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
[Government]
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
[Politics]
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