Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Special
Statesmen
Education
Printing
Reading
Steel
War
Presses
Done
Press
Every
Judge
Clad
Mind
Judging
Gunpowder
Men
Longer
Statesman
More quotes by Wendell Phillips
The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
Wendell Phillips
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
Wendell Phillips
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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
The heart is the best logician.
Wendell Phillips
Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
Wendell Phillips
Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
Wendell Phillips
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Revolutions never go backwards.
Wendell Phillips
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Wendell Phillips
