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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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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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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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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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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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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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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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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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