Quote #31

'It's just what Wendell Phillips said,' she declared. ''The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.'' Mrs. Ware in Chapter II of the novel The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic, 1896.

More from Wendell Phillips

  1. Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresse…
  2. What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
  3. What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
  4. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
  5. 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…
  6. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
  7. 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.
  8. To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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