Wendell Phillips Quotes

Wendell Phillips (American - Activist)

 

November 29, 1811 - February 2, 1884

 

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

 

 

 

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

 

 

 

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Responsibility educates.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

 

 

 

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