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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
Duty
Justice
Society
Inspirational
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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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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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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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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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 is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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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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