Wendell Phillips Quotes

• Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concealment, Govern, Grace

• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Education

• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Big Government

• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Conquer, Exigencies

• If there is anything in the universe that can’t stand discussion, let it crack.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Crack, Discussion

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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  Tags in Insurrection, Precedes

• Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Pulpit, Preached

• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Reflective, Thinker

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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  Tags in Moods, Filtered

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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  Tags in Gunpowder, Printing

• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Trite, Multiplication

• 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

  Tags in Presidency, Seventy

• Aristocracy is always cruel.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Cruel, Aristocracy

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Christianity, Battle

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Corrupt, Mightiest

• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad

• Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Rebellion

• Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world’s progress.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Politics, Progress

  Tags in Revolution

Wendell Phillips (38)

Birth:	29th November, 1811
Death:	2nd February, 1884
Nationality:	-
Profession:	Abolitionist, Lawyer

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