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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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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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The heart is the best logician.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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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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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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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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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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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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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 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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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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