Famous Quotes / Wendell Phillips
21 Quotations by Wendell Phillips
- 1. Aristocracy is always cruel.
- 2. Christianity is a battle not a dream.
- 3. Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
- 4. If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
- 5. Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
- 6. Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
- 7. On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
- 8. One on God's side is a majority.
- 9. Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
- 10. Responsibility educates.
- 11. Revolutions are not made, they come.
- 12. Revolutions never go backward.
- 13. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- 14. The heart is the best reflective thinker.
- 15. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
- 16. To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
- 17. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- 18. What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
- 19. What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
- 20. What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.