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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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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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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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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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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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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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