Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
Wendell PhillipsEternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell PhillipsTwo 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 PhillipsThe Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell PhillipsWhat is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Wendell PhillipsRevolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!
Wendell Phillips