John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Wendell Phillips 1811-1884 John Bartlett
| 1 |
| Revolutions are not made; they come. |
| Speech. Jan. 28, 1852. |
| 2 |
| What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. |
| Speech. Dec. 21, 1855. |
| 3 |
| One on God’s side is a majority. |
| Speech. Nov. 1, 1859. |
| 4 |
| Every man meets his Waterloo at last. |
| Speech. Nov. 1, 1859. |
| 5 |
| Revolutions never go backward. |
| Speech. Feb. 12, 1861. |
| 6 |
| Aristocracy is always cruel. |
| Lecture: Toussaint l’Ouverture (1861). |
| 7 |
| Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. |
| Lecture: The Lost Arts. |