149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.