How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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...

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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.

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...

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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...

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

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

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

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

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to...

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to...

The more we write the less we die.

The more we write the less we die.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any...

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any...