About Wendell Phillips: Wendell Phillips was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
