The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
Wendell Phillips (Lawyer, 1811 – 1884)
One on God’s side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips (Lawyer, 1811 – 1884)
Society,–the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world’s university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.
Wendell Phillips (Lawyer, 1811 – 1884)
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips (Lawyer, 1811 – 1884)
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Wendell Phillips (Lawyer, 1811 – 1884)
Write on my gravestone: ‘Infidel, Traitor.’, infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips (Lawyer, 1811 – 1884)
A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
G. K. Chesterton (Writer, 1874 – 1936)