Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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

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.

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,...

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

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

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...

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,...

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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...

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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...

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

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

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

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

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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.

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,...

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

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...

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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.