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
men two forget
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
growth want
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
war alive agitation
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
men two political
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.
horse political bones
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
political fever revolution
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
men law aggravation
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.
moving men ideas
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
hands people enemy
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
heart stronger
Hearts are stronger than swords.
children government self
Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
fighting government ideas
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
men advice causes
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
america rocks plymouth
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.