Wendell Phillips Quotes

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

Democracy;

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
~ Wendell Phillips

Argument;

Aristocracy is always cruel.
~ Wendell Phillips

Aristocracy;

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

Cause;

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
~ Wendell Phillips

Christianity;

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

Debt;

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
~ Wendell Phillips

Defeat;

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
~ Wendell Phillips

Education;