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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
Jurist
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Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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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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Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another but get something.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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