What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. – Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. – Wendell Phillips
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. – Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell Phillips
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
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. – 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
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle – that of obedience to their superiors. – Wendell Phillips
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. – Wendell Phillips
