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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.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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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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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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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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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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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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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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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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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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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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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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