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Wendell Phillips Inspirational Quotes (108)

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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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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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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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