Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Wendell Phillips

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

- Wendell Phillips

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

- Wendell Phillips

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Wendell Phillips

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

- Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy is always cruel.

- Wendell Phillips

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

- Wendell Phillips

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Wendell Phillips

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

- Wendell Phillips

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

- Wendell Phillips

One on God's side is a majority.

- Wendell Phillips

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Wendell Phillips

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- 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

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Wendell Phillips