Wendell Phillips Quotes - Page 2

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• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

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  Men, Two, Political

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• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

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  Freedom, Jealous, People

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• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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  Truth, Blood, Forever

  Wendell Phillips (1859). “Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker”, p.6

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• The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

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  Ideas, Gossip, Mind

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• How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

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  Men, Two, Forget

  National Anti-Slavery Standard, 27 Apr. 1867

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• My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

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  Men, Advice, Would Be

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• Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

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  Lying, Opinion, Popularity

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• Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Dream

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• Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

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  Political, Half, Politics

  Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, C. I. H. Nichols (1854). “Woman's Rights Tracts”, p.24

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• Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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  Differences, Religion, Quarrels

  Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, C. I. H. Nichols (1854). “Woman's Rights Tracts”, p.20

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• Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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  Games, Play, Common Sense

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• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

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  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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

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  Education, Wisdom, Children

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• One on God's side is a majority.

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  God, Majority, Sides

  Speech on John Brown, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1 Nov. 1859 See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Thoreau 9

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• Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

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  Voice, Together, Goes On

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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  Destiny, Men, Lasts

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.274

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• The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

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  Ideas, Numbers, Long

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• Never forgive at the ballot box!

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  Forgiving, Boxes, Ballots

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• Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

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  Law, Void, Should

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

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  Praise, Know How, Knows

  "Fraternity Lecture of Wendell Phillips, Esq: Boston, Oct. 4, 1859. Also, Letter of Mr. Phillips to Judge Shaw and Prest. Walker".

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• It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

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  Moving, Men, Ideas

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• The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

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  Hands, People, Enemy

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• Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

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  Caring, Care, Newspapers

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• Hearts are stronger than swords.

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  Heart, Stronger

  Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.292

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• Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

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  Lying, Health, Toil

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.54

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