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Famous Wendell Phillips Quotes
“Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”
“Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.”
“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.”
“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.”
“Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.”
“Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.”
“Revolutions are not made, they come.”
“Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.”
“Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.”
“Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.”
“The keener the want the lustier the growth.”
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”
“Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.”
“The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.”
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
“Aristocracy is always cruel.”