149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips




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    Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.

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    Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

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    Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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    Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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    Nihilism is the righteous and honorable resistance of a people crushed under an iron rule.

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    Nihilism is evidence of life...the last weapons of victims choked and manacled beyond all other resistance.

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