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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.

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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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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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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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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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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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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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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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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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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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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The heart is the best logician.
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