Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillipswas an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 November 1811
CountryUnited States of America
conquer ability
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
progress world steps
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
world action puritan
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
heart
The heart is the best logician.
arms insurrection
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
grace phrases agitation
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
cracks discussion ifs
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
want firsts causes
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
ideas numbers common-sense
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
men law feet
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
sleep safety liberty
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
destiny men lasts
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
ideas gossip mind
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
praise knows know-how
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.