Wendell Phillips Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.

  Wendell Phillips

  Hands, Yesterday, People

• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tables, Today, Tomorrow

  Wendell Phillips (1982). “Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom”

• The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

  Wendell Phillips

  Christian, Truth, Real

  Wendell Phillips (1955). “Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia”

• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

  Wendell Phillips

  Government, Today, Bigs

• I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

  Wendell Phillips

  Believe, Yesterday, Today

• Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

  Wendell Phillips

  Law, Land, Yesterday

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.264

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