Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Inspirational
Obstacles
Better
Defeat
Firsts
Step
Nothing
Failure
First
Leadership
Something
Steps
Life
Sports
Education
Defeated
More quotes by Wendell Phillips
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
Wendell Phillips
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Wendell Phillips
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
Wendell Phillips
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Wendell Phillips
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
Wendell Phillips
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
Wendell Phillips
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Wendell Phillips
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
Wendell Phillips
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips
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.
Wendell Phillips
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
Wendell Phillips
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Wendell Phillips
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
Wendell Phillips
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
Wendell Phillips
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
