No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
Wendell PhillipsGod gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
Wendell PhillipsEternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell PhillipsBrains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
Wendell Phillips