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

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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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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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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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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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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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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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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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