Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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...

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,...

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.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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

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

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.

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

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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...

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

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.

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.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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...

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.