149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

The Puritan’s idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world’s progress.

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

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

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle – that of obedience to their superiors.

The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.

Responsibility educates.

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

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