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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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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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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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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 heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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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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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
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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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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another but get something.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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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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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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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