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

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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...

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

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.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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...

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,...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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

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

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.