Wendell Phillips Quotes

• Some doubt the courage of the Negro. Go to Haiti and stand on those fifty thousand graves of the best soldiers France ever had, and ask them what they think of the Negro’s sword.

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• You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

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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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• What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

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

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• We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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• 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.

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

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• The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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• The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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

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

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• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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• Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

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

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• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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Wendell Phillips (38)

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

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