Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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...

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.

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.

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

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

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.

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

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

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...

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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,...

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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...

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.

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

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

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...