06c. 1847 ADBrains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said, "Men succeed less by their talents than their character." There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
07c. 1847 ADAs the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
08c. 1847 ADDefeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
09c. 1847 ADEducation is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
10c. 1847 ADEvery step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
11c. 1847 ADGive to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
12c. 1847 ADGovernment arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
13c. 1847 ADGovernment began in tyranny and force, in the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
14c. 1847 ADGovernment is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
16c. 1847 ADHealth lies in labour, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
17c. 1847 ADJustice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organised selfishness of human nature. God has given manhood but one clue to success—utter and exact justice.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
20c. 1847 ADRevolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
21c. 1847 ADTo be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
22c. 1847 ADTruth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
23c. 1847 ADWhat gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
24c. 1847 ADAgitation is the method that plants the school by the side of the ballot-box.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
