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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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...

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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.

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...

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,...

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

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

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

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...

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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...

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

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

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,...

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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

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 tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it...

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it...