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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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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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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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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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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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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
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