Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. Wendell Phillips More Quotes by Wendell Phillips More Quotes From Wendell Phillips Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. Wendell Phillips governmentwritingpeople The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. Wendell Phillips prohibitionlibertymen 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. Wendell Phillips politicalmentwo Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. Wendell Phillips agitationalivewar The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. Wendell Phillips agitationphrasesgrace Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress Wendell Phillips newspaperscarecaring Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field. Wendell Phillips victorylibertysoldier If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. Wendell Phillips causeswantfirsts It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world Wendell Phillips menideasmoving 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. Wendell Phillips numberslongideas Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming. Wendell Phillips delaysunworld Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty. Wendell Phillips libertyfreedomresponsibility A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war. Wendell Phillips governmentwarpeople Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent. Wendell Phillips doegivingbelieve Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. Wendell Phillips thoughtfuleducationmen The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him. Wendell Phillips partyintegritymen The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington. Wendell Phillips new-yorkwhitecountry The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people Wendell Phillips handspeopleenemy The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet. Wendell Phillips lawfeetmen The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any. Wendell Phillips safetydemocracysleep
