Wendell Phillips Ideas Quotations

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 Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

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.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.