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.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to...

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood,...

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.