Wendell Phillips Quotes

Organize, And Stand Together. Claim Something Together, And At Once; Let The Nation Hear A United Demand From The Laboring Voice, And Then, When You Have Got That, Go On After Another; But Get Something.

We Live Under A Government Of Men And Morning Newspapers.

Aristocracy Is Always Cruel.

On A Single Winged Word Hath Hung The Destiny Of Nations.

The Man Who, For Party, Forsakes Righteousness, Goes Down; And The Armed Battalions Of God March Over Him.

Politicians Are Like The Bones Of A Horse's Foreshoulder-not A Straight One In It.

Education Is The Only Interest Worthy The Deep, Controlling Anxiety Of The Thoughtful Man.

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.

Right Is The Eternal Sun; The World Cannot Delay Its Coming.

Politics Is But The Common Pulse-beat, Of Which Revolution Is The Fever-spasm.

Our Agitation, You Know, Helps Keep Yours Alive In The Rank And File.

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.