Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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
Journalism
Washington
York
Paper
White
Penny
House
Pennies
Country
Govern
Papers
More quotes by Wendell Phillips
Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Wendell Phillips
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
Wendell Phillips
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Wendell Phillips
It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
Wendell Phillips
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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
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
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Wendell Phillips
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Wendell Phillips
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
Wendell Phillips
