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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Wendell Phillips

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Wendell Phillips

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Wendell Phillips

Responsibility educates.

Wendell Phillips

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Wendell Phillips

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Wendell Phillips

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Wendell Phillips

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips

Two 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 Phillips

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendell Phillips