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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Massachusetts
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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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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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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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