149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Every government is always growing corrupt.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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.

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.