PHILLIPS, WENDELL : You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope of the Presidency. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PHILLIPS, WENDELL : Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PHILLIPS, WENDELL : As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PHILLIPS, WENDELL : All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PHILLIPS, WENDELL : Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)