Wendell Phillips Quotes

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.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Aristocracy is always cruel

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress