abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans
, and orator. He was an exceptional orator and agitator, advocate and lawyer, writer and debater.
Phillips was born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 29, 1811, to Sarah Walley and John Phillips
, a successful lawyer, politician, and philanthropist.
Phillips was schooled at Boston Latin School
, and graduated from Harvard University
in 1831. Afterwards, he went on to attend Harvard Law School
, from which he graduated in 1833.
Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
One on God's side is a majority.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Revolutions never go backward.