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The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Keener
Growth

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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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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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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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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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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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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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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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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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