The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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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...

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...

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...

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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...

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

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...

You needn't be trying to comfort me, I tell you my dolly is dead! There's...

You needn't be trying to comfort me, I tell you my dolly is dead! There's...

Funerals are pretty compared to death

Funerals are pretty compared to death

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall...

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall...

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word...

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word...