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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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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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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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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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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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