Quote #23
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
More from Wendell Phillips
- The heart is the best reflective thinker.
- 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.
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
- 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…
- Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
- We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.