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One on God's side is a majority.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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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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No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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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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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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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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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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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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