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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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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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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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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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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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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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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No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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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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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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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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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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