Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
Wendell PhillipsGreat political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
Wendell PhillipsThe press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
Wendell Phillips