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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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Men
Newspapers
Morning
Government

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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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 measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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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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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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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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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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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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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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The heart is the best logician.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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