Quotes by Wendell Phillips

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

#Wendell Phillips

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

#Fanaticism

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

#Wendell Phillips

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

#Wendell Phillips

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

#Wendell Phillips

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American...

#Labor

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

#Wendell Phillips

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

#Wendell Phillips

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

#Wendell Phillips

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

#Wendell Phillips

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

#Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy is always cruel

#Aristocracy