"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind." ― Wendell Phillips Topic(s): War More From Wendell Phillips "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics." "You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency." "The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living." More In War "We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."― Maria Mitchell "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."― George Orwell "The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."― Adrienne Rich