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
liberty esprit-de-corps stealing
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
government today bigs
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
war book reading
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
freedom jealous people
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
differences religion quarrels
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
christian real teaching
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
fathers-day imitation discipleship
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
games play common-sense
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
government growing
Every government is always growing corrupt.
past heritage harvest
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
education children struggle
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
rights government political
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
stronger prejudice humans
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
past growth revolution
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.