Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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
Decision
Asks
Games
Common
Chessboard
Sense
Plays
Doe
Game
Play
Takes
Impossible
More quotes by Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
Wendell Phillips
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
Wendell Phillips
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
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.
Wendell Phillips
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Wendell Phillips
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
Wendell Phillips
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Wendell Phillips
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
Wendell Phillips
Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
Wendell Phillips
Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
Wendell Phillips
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
Never forgive at the ballot box!
Wendell Phillips
The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
Wendell Phillips
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another but get something.
Wendell Phillips
