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The heart is the best logician.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Logician
Best
Heart

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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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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 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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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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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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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Law is 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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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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