Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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...

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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,...

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...

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

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...

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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...

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

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

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

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...

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

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...

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.