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 PhillipsRevolutions 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 PhillipsYou can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips