Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
- Wendell Phillips
Truth, Through, Filtered, Disposition
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
- Wendell Phillips
Instinct, Physical, Truer, Animal
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
- Wendell Phillips
Me, Congress, I Care, Pulpit
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
- Wendell Phillips
Father's Day, Better, Imitation
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
- Wendell Phillips
Growth, Want, Keener
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
- Wendell Phillips
Liberty, Eternal, Ever, Vigilance
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.
- Wendell Phillips
Government, Law, Some, Gravitation
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
- Wendell Phillips
Brains, Atmosphere, Agitation
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
- Wendell Phillips
Thought, Always, Precedes, Insurrection
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Wendell Phillips
Business, Government, Big, Big Business
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
- Wendell Phillips
Week, Fanaticism, Trite, Fashionable
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
- Wendell Phillips
War, Mind, Printing Press, Printing
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
Principle, Political Life, Great Talent
Aristocracy is always cruel.
- Wendell Phillips
Cruel, Always, Aristocracy
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
- Wendell Phillips
Thought, World, Gave, Puritans
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
- Wendell Phillips
Jewel, Given, Concealment, Impart
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
- Wendell Phillips
Stand, Universe, Discussion, Crack
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
- Wendell Phillips
Rich, Need, Minorities, Protect
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- Wendell Phillips
Corrupt, Disease, Undermine, Republics
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
- Wendell Phillips
Want, Get, Cause, Orator
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
- Wendell Phillips
Politics, More, Quarrels, Breeds
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
- Wendell Phillips
Wealth, Last, Means, Labor Movement
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
- Wendell Phillips
World, Been, Stake, Scaffold
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Wendell Phillips
Education, World, Living, Struggling
Responsibility educates.
- Wendell Phillips
Education, Responsibility, Educates
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
- Wendell Phillips
Best, Heart, Thinker, Reflective
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
- Wendell Phillips
Power, Few, Many, Stealing
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
- Wendell Phillips
Freedom, Chains, Victories, Knows
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- Wendell Phillips
Live, Men, Government, Newspapers
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
- Wendell Phillips
Behind, Warm, Stands, Public Opinion
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
- Wendell Phillips
Defeat, First Step, Better, Step
One on God's side is a majority.
- Wendell Phillips
God, Side, Majority
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
- Wendell Phillips
Boredom, Form, After, Criticism
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
Always, Given, Statesman, Presidency
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
- Wendell Phillips
Know, How, Few, Praise
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
- Wendell Phillips
Battle, Dream, Christianity
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
- Wendell Phillips
Create, Meet, Necessary, Conquer
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