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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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Boredom
Criticism

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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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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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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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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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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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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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