What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Wendell Phillips

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.

- Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

- Wendell Phillips

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

- 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

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

- Wendell Phillips

I think the first duty of society is justice.

- Wendell Phillips

I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

- Wendell Phillips