More from Wendell Phillips

  1. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
  2. To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
  3. Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
  4. 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.
  5. Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
  6. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
  7. Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
  8. 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 princ…

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