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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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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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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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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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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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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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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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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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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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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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