Wendell Phillips Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

26 Famous Quotes by Wendell Phillips
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“Aristocracy is always cruel”
Aristocracy Quotes
“Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait”
Infidelity Quotes
“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.”
Minority Quotes
“Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress”
Newspapers Quotes
“Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.”
Opinions Quotes
“Every man meets his Waterloo at last.”
Destiny Quotes
Source: Speech
“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.”
Plagiarism Quotes
Source: Lecture--The Lost Arts
“Revolutions never go backward.”
Revolution Quotes
Source: Speech--Progress
“Revolutions are not made; they come.”
Revolution Quotes
Source: Speech--Public Opinion
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
Education Quotes
“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.”
Government Quotes
“To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship”
Imitation Quotes
“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.”
Newspapers Quotes
“Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
Treason Quotes
“Christianity is a battle, not a dream.”
Christianity Quotes
“Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.”
Christianity Quotes
“Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Christianity is a battle, not a dream.”
Christianity Quotes
“If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.”
Cause Quotes
“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.”
Debt Quotes
“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.”
Defeat Quotes
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.”
Education Quotes
“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
Education Quotes
“Responsibility educates.”
Responsibility Quotes
“Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
Treason Quotes
“We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.”
Wage Quotes