ThursdaySep 17, 2026
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Wendell Phillips (29 November 1811 - 2 February 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
No matter whose the lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. The community which dares not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
One on God's side is a majority.
Responsibility educates.
Revolutions are not made; they come.
Revolutions never go backward.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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