Quotes about Wendell Phillips

One on God's side is a majority.

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

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and...

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Christianity is a battle not a dream.

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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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

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

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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