Aristocracy is always cruel

Quote by Wendell Phillips

Topics: Aristocracy Quotes

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...

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...

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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,...

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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.

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy,...

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...

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...

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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

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

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...

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every...

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the...

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the...

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is...

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is...

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.