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Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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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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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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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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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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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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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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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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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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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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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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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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