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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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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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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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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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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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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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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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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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The heart is the best logician.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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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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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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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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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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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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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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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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