Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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
Designed
Rhythmic
Express
Resembles
Grace
Agitation
Rather
Delivery
Work
Vocal
Phrase
Stabs
Expressed
Ornamentation
Phrases
Decorative
More quotes by Wendell Phillips
Revolutions never go backwards.
Wendell Phillips
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
Wendell Phillips
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
Wendell Phillips
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
Wendell Phillips
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
Wendell Phillips
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
Wendell Phillips
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
Wendell Phillips
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Wendell Phillips
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
Wendell Phillips
The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
Wendell Phillips
The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Wendell Phillips
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
Wendell Phillips
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Wendell Phillips
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
Wendell Phillips
Never forgive at the ballot box!
Wendell Phillips
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
Wendell Phillips
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.
Wendell Phillips
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Wendell Phillips
