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

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...

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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...

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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...

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

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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...

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...

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,...

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

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.

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.

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

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...

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

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

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

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

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