We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. – Wendell Phillips
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. – Wendell Phillips

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. – Wendell Phillips
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. – Wendell Phillips
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. – Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. – Wendell Phillips
It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech