What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better

Quote by Wendell Phillips

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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...

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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...

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 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.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

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.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism

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...

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...

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

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

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...

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it...

That government is best which governs least.

That government is best which governs least.