149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

I honor Nihilism since it redeems human nature from the suspicion of being utterly vile, made up of heartless oppressors and contented slaves.

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.

After all, the strongest sentiment on this continent is nationality — love of country, glory in the Revolution and Declaration of Independence, reverence for Washington and the founders of our Constitution. Cut an American into a hundred pieces and boil him down, and you will find him all Fourth of July.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one half the nation; but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.