149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

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.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.