Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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.

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...

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

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

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

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

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.

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

One on God's side is a majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

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

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.

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure...

A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure...

You can't trust anybody with power

You can't trust anybody with power

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that....

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that....