149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.