It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
Wendell PhillipsThe hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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 PhillipsWhat is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Wendell PhillipsExperience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
Wendell PhillipsThe paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
Wendell Phillips