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. Wendell Phillips Read Quote
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. Wendell Phillips Read Quote
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. Wendell Phillips Read Quote
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. Wendell Phillips Read Quote
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips Read Quote