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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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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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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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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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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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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.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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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 community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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