#w

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

#congress #gravitation #hear #kept #law

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#flatter #how #know #many #praise

Aristocracy is always cruel. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#aristocracy #cruel

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#every #every step #made #progress #scaffold

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

— Wendell Phillips

#close #law #living #nothing #opinion

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#concealment #ever #given #grace #impart

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

— Wendell Phillips

#education #get #got #living #struggling

The keener the want the lustier the growth. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#keener #want

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#american #american people #incorporated #just #labor

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia? ↗

— Sarah Mlynowski

#sarah-mlynowski #std #ten-things-we-did #funny