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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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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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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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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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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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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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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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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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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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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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