Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

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

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 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...

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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

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

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...

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.