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I think the first duty of society is justice.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Society
Inspirational
Firsts
First
Think
Duty
Justice

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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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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 the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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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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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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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