Wendell Phillips

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers…

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

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

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy…

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

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the…

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics…

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship…

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to…

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

Responsibility educates…

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this…

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

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