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...
heart silence soul
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
animal worry forever
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
republic tenure
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
war thunder niagara
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
discipline growth want
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
men greatness trifles
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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.