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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
Jurist
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Boston
Massachusetts
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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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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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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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Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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