Quotes by Wendell Phillips

“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.”

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

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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

Revolutions are not made they come.

Christianity is a battle not a dream

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.

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

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

One on Gods side is a majority.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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