Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

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 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...

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

Christianity is a battle, not a dream

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

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.

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.

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

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

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,...

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...

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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

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...

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...