Talk:Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
Apparently, John Philpot Curran said the same thing before -- de:VWM 91.67.218.140 23:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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 * Christianity is a battle not a dream.


 * Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.


 * If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.


 * Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.


 * It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.


 * Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.


 * Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.


 * Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.


 * The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.


 * The heart is the best reflective thinker.


 * The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future. (Inscription written on the National Archives building in Washington D.C.)


 * To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.


 * To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.


 * Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.


 * 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.


 * We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.


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


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