Quote #16
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
More from Wendell Phillips
- If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
- It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
- Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
- Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
- Christianity is a battle not a dream.
- Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
- Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or b…
- Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.