Wendell Phillips - Quotations

Quotations

• "What is defeat? Nothing but education;nothing but the first step of something better."
• "What gunpowder has done for war, the printing press has done for the mind."

• "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

• "The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future."

• "To be as good as our fathers we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship".

• "The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."

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

• "Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back."

• "One on God's side is a majority."

• "Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories" (inscribed on the Wendell Philips Memorial in Boston Public Garden).