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Wendell Phillips Inspirational Quotes (108)

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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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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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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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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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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