Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

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...

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but...

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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,...

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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...

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

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

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.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American...

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine...

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and...

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and...