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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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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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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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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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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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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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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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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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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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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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One on God's side is a majority.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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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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No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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