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Wendell Phillips Inspirational Quotes (108)

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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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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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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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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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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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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever 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.
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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.
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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!
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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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.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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