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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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Government
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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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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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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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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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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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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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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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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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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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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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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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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