Wendell Phillips

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

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Responsibility educates.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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