You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency

Quote by Wendell Phillips

Topics: Politics Quotes, Religion Quotes

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...

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.

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,...

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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

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

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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.

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...

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...

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.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

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

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.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to...

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to...

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.