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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 heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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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 best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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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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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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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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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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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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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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