Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
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.
brain atmosphere agitation
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
lying ignorance giving
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
men thinking world
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
writing use literature
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
boredom criticism form
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
example speak authority
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
revolution backwards
Revolutions never go backwards.
law public-opinion behinds
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.