Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
Wendell PhillipsThe Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell PhillipsAgitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Wendell PhillipsSociety,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.
Wendell Phillips