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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
— Wendell Phillips
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
— Wendell Phillips
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
— Wendell Phillips
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
— Wendell Phillips
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
— Wendell Phillips
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
— Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
— Wendell Phillips
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
— Wendell Phillips
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
— Wendell Phillips
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
— Wendell Phillips
The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
— Wendell Phillips
Aristocracy is always cruel.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
— Wendell Phillips
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
— Wendell Phillips
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
— Wendell Phillips
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
— Wendell Phillips
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
— Wendell Phillips
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care,Yet never let the noble mind despair. — Wendell Phillips
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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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.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
— Wendell Phillips
Revolutions are not made, they come.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
— Wendell Phillips
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
— Wendell Phillips
The heart is the best logician.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
— Wendell Phillips
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
— Wendell Phillips
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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God gives manhood but one clew to success,utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency. — Wendell Phillips
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated ... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
— Wendell Phillips
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
— Wendell Phillips
Revolutions never go backwards.
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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
— Wendell Phillips
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
— Wendell Phillips
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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