149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

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

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

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

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

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.