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...
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.
political progress revolution
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
thinking soul religion
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
moving progress world
The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
war reading men
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
crazy destiny europe
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
giving justice guarantees
God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
justice rate ifs
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
stars children giving-up
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!