Wendell Phillips Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Book, Reading

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

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

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Law, Public Opinion

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.264

• Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Agitation, Alive

• A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Government, People

• What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Reading, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

• War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Thunder, Niagara

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.408

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