01c. 1847 ADAgitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
02c. 1847 ADThe old Hindoo saw, in his dream, the human race led out to its various fortunes. First men were in chains which went back to an iron hand. Then he saw them led by threads from the brain, which went upward to an unseen hand. The first was despotism, iron and ruling by force. The last was civilization, ruling by ideas.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
03c. 1847 ADAs health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
04c. 1847 ADWhen Infinite Wisdom established the rule of right and honesty, He saw to it that justice should be always the highest expediency.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
05c. 1847 ADWith us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes are waste paper, lacking all executive force.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
07c. 1847 ADWhat gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
08c. 1847 ADHow prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
09c. 1847 ADWhen I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
10c. 1847 ADYou can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
11c. 1847 ADPhysical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
13c. 1847 ADExigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
14c. 1847 ADCommon sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
15c. 1847 ADWhat is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
16c. 1847 ADWhat is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
17c. 1847 ADGovernments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
18c. 1847 ADHealth lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
19c. 1847 ADIt is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
21c. 1847 ADLaw is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
22c. 1847 ADLet me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
24c. 1847 ADPolitics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.Wendell Phillips / quote ↗
