You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all...
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispo...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent;...
WENDELL PHILLIPS The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stak...
WENDELL PHILLIPS If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Eternal vigilance is the price of libertypower is ever stealing from the many to the few. The hand e...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
WENDELL PHILLIPS One on God's side is a majority.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; tr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments a...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Christianity is a ba...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The paleontological evidence be...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
WENDELL PHILLIPS We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Christianity is a battle not a dream.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The keener the want the lustier the growth.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The heart is the best reflective thinker.
WENDELL PHILLIPS To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions are not made, they come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions never go backward.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; trai...
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Responsibility educates.
WENDELL PHILLIPS If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Aristocracy is always cruel
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Cong...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: t...
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
WENDELL PHILLIPS To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation,...
WENDELL PHILLIPS To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Aristocracy is always cruel.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions are not made; they come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: th...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait
WENDELL PHILLIPS Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matte...
WENDELL PHILLIPS On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
WENDELL PHILLIPS You can always get truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up hope of ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; t...
WENDELL PHILLIPS To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism
WENDELL PHILLIPS Responsibility educates
WENDELL PHILLIPS Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions are not made. They come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stak...
WENDELL PHILLIPS The keener the want the lustier the growth
WENDELL PHILLIPS Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
WENDELL PHILLIPS How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late f...
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a ...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains
WENDELL PHILLIPS If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack
WENDELL PHILLIPS Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few
WENDELL PHILLIPS What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action
WENDELL PHILLIPS How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate f...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Christianity is a battle, not a dream
WENDELL PHILLIPS Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments a...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; tr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress
WENDELL PHILLIPS If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause
WENDELL PHILLIPS One, on God's side, is a majority
WENDELL PHILLIPS Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
WENDELL PHILLIPS I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
WENDELL MAYES Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
WENDELL MAYES While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
WENDELL JOHNSON I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...
WENDELL BERRY An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...
WENDELL BERRY There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is t...
WENDELL BERRY We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to ...
WENDELL BERRY The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent fo...
WENDELL BERRY These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
WENDELL BERRY All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
WENDELL BERRY Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...
WENDELL BERRY The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
WENDELL BERRY This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha...
WENDELL BERRY To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRY The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...
WENDELL BERRY If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable m...
WENDELL BERRY Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
WENDELL BERRY The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou...
WENDELL BERRY Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh...
WENDELL BERRY Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of previ...
BARRETT WENDELL This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to the...
WENDELL BERRY Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
WENDELL BERRY Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
WENDELL BERRY say that your main crop is the forest.
WENDELL BERRY If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously i...
WENDELL BERRY You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
WENDELL PARSONS My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...
WENDELL BERRY In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
WENDELL BERRY Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
WENDELL JOHNSON Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...
WENDELL BERRY The world is whole beyond human knowing.
WENDELL BERRY History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
WENDELL BERRY As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
WENDELL BERRY Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
WENDELL BERRY It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRY Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit...
WENDELL BERRY To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...
WENDELL BERRY The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ...
WENDELL BERRY I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr...
WENDELL BERRY You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
WENDELL BERRY Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum...
WENDELL BERRY We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
WENDELL BERRY A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
WENDELL BERRY The earth is what we all have in common.
WENDELL BARRY I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
WENDELL BERRY Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, ...
WENDELL PIERCE We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good ca...
WENDELL BERRY The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
WENDELL BERRY We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRY A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the gover...
WENDELL WILLKIE What I stand for is what I stand on.
WENDELL BERRY Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...
WENDELL BERRY The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
WENDELL BERRY Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but ...
WENDELL MAYES When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
WENDELL BERRY Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRY I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
WENDELL BERRY How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
WENDELL BERRY Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the stro...
WENDELL WILLKIE In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
WENDELL BERRY The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
WENDELL WILLKIE “Eating is an agricultural act.”
WENDELL BERRY Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
WENDELL BERRY The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power host...
WENDELL WILLKIE To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take aw...
WENDELL WILLKIE The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
WENDELL WILLKIE Free men are the strongest men.
WENDELL WILLKIE If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
WENDELL BERRY I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of C...
WENDELL WILLKIE It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside wo...
WENDELL WILLKIE Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
WENDELL WILLKIE No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into ...
WENDELL WILLKIE The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
WENDELL BERRY Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
WENDELL BERRY But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, a...
WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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