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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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.

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...

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,...

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...

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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

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

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

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

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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...

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man...

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man...

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine