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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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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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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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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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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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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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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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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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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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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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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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