Wendell Phillips

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

“Revolutions are not made; they come.”

“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 the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”

“One on God's side is a majority.”

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

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

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

“Politics is but the common pulse beat.”

“Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.”

“Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.”

“Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.”

“Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.”

“Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.”

“Aristocracy is always cruel.”

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

“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

“Responsibility educates.”

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