Wendell Phillips Quotes
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. The heart is the best reflective thinker. The keener the want the lustier the growth. The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. 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. Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. 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 principle - that of obedience to their superiors. We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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