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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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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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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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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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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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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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