Wendell PhillipsThinkers

Abraham Lincoln is a huckster in politics; a first-rate second-rate man.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

Civil War is a momentous evil, so needs momentous and solemn justification.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics and the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Defeat is crucial to education... it is nothing but the first step to something better.

Defeat is the first step to something better.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it In times past.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

Opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.