Zitat des Tages von Wendell Phillips:
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
One on God's side is a majority.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Responsibility educates.
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.