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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
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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The heart is the best logician.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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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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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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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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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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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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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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