Wendell Phillips
Activist
1811-11-29
Books by Wendell Phillips
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The Scholar in a Republic
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Speeches, Lectures, and Letters. by Wendell Phillips.
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Wendell Phillips
A Centennial Oration Delivered at Park Street Church, Boston, November 28, 1911
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Quotes by Wendell Phillips
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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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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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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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.
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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.
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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One, on God's side, is a majority.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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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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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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