Responsibility educates

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.

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...

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...

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,...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no...

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility educates.

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...

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

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...

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are...

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are...