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...
mean past men
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
wall men doe
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.
revolution made
Revolutions are not made, they come.
god sides majority
One on God's side is a majority.
safety republic distrust
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
writing government people
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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