WPWendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips

Life dates: 1811 AD — 1884 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1847 AD

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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02c. 1847 AD

The old Hindoo saw, in his dream, the human race led out to its various fortunes. First men were in chains which went back to an iron hand. Then he saw them led by threads from the brain, which went upward to an unseen hand. The first was despotism, iron and ruling by force. The last was civilization, ruling by ideas.

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03c. 1847 AD

As health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

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04c. 1847 AD

When Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency.

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05c. 1847 AD

With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes are waste paper, lacking all executive force.

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06c. 1847 AD

Responsibility educates.

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07c. 1847 AD

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

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08c. 1847 AD

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

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09c. 1847 AD

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

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10c. 1847 AD

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

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11c. 1847 AD

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

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12c. 1847 AD

Christianity is a battle not a dream

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13c. 1847 AD

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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14c. 1847 AD

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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15c. 1847 AD

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

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16c. 1847 AD

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

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17c. 1847 AD

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

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18c. 1847 AD

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

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19c. 1847 AD

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

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20c. 1847 AD

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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21c. 1847 AD

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

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22c. 1847 AD

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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23c. 1847 AD

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

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24c. 1847 AD

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

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