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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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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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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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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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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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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 heart is the best logician.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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