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Wendell Phillips Quotes about War

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

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

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

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

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

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

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

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