Wendell Phillips Liberty Quotations

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

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.

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.