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
sex real ambition
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.
taken sleep men
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
college church literature
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
mind littles easy
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
lying opinion popularity
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
mean class ideas
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
integrity party men
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
law void should
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
education men thoughtful
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
independent thinking ninety-nine
It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
believe giving speech
Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
soldier victory liberty
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
war government people
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.
freedom responsibility liberty
Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.