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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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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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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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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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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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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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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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