Wendell Phillips

I think the first duty society is justice.

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

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Truth is one forever, absolute; but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition, of the spectator.

Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.