Wendell Phillips Quotations | Page 2

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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

The heart is the best logician.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.