1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips – [Aristocracy]
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Wendell Phillips – [Christians and Christianity]
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Wendell Phillips – [Causes]
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips – [Opinions]
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips – [Praise]
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Wendell Phillips – [Words]
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips – [God]
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips – [Power]
Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips – [Responsibility]
Revolutions are not made, they come.
Wendell Phillips – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]
Revolutions never go backward.
Wendell Phillips – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips – [Education]
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Wendell Phillips – [Heart]
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Wendell Phillips – [Want]
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
Wendell Phillips – [Imitation]
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips – [Books and Reading]
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips – [Failure]
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips – [Puritans]
Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.''–infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips – [Treason]