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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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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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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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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.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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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 Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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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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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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