Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power i... -Wendell Phillips

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Wendell Phillips , Activist
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Wendell Phillips Quotes to Explore

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind....
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship....
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories....
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few....
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers....
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage....
Responsibility educates....
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....

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is ba...
Heart power is stronger than horsepower....
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a ...
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the li...
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fas...
Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this beco...
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the powe...
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place....
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corpora...
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating....