Wendell Phillips

“Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.”

“Responsibility educates.”

“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”

“To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.”

“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”

“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”

“You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.”

“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.”

“What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.”

“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.”

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