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Wendell Phillips Inspirational Quotes (108)

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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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The heart is the best logician.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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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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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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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.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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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.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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