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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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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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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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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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The heart is the best logician.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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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 step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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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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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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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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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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One on God's side is a majority.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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