149 Quotes by Wendell Phillips

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Never forgive at the ballot box!

Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after