As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

— Wendell Phillips

Christianity is a battle not a dream

— Wendell Phillips

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

— Wendell Phillips

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

— Wendell Phillips

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

— Wendell Phillips

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

— Wendell Phillips

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

— 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

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

— Wendell Phillips

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

— Wendell Phillips