Wendell Phillips

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

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.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

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

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

One on God's side is a majority.