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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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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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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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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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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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