Quote #10
Revolutions never go backward.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Wendell Phillips
- Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
- Aristocracy is always cruel.
- Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
- Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or b…
- Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
- Christianity is a battle not a dream.
- Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
- Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.