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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Wendell Phillips

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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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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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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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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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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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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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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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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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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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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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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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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 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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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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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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