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Favorite Wendell Phillips Quotes

1. "The heart is the best reflective thinker." ~ Wendell Phillips
2. "The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth." ~ Wendell Phillips
3. "Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains." ~ Wendell Phillips
4. "Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors." ~ Wendell Phillips
5. "Aristocracy is always cruel." ~ Wendell Phillips
6. "How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality." ~ Wendell Phillips
7. "Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people." ~ Wendell Phillips
8. "Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust." ~ Wendell Phillips
9. "External vigilance is the price of liberty." ~ Wendell Phillips
10. "Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage." ~ Wendell Phillips
11. "Responsibility educates." ~ Wendell Phillips
12. "Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people." ~ Wendell Phillips
13. "Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise." ~ Wendell Phillips
14. "To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship." ~ Wendell Phillips
15. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few." ~ Wendell Phillips
16. "To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places." ~ Wendell Phillips
17. "Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake." ~ Wendell Phillips
18. "Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government." ~ Wendell Phillips
19. "Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism." ~ Wendell Phillips
20. "Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies." ~ Wendell Phillips
21. "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics." ~ Wendell Phillips
22. "Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them." ~ Wendell Phillips
23. "What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind." ~ Wendell Phillips
24. "Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms." ~ Wendell Phillips

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