Quotes from Wendell Phillips

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

One on God's side is a majority.

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

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

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

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

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

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

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

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

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.