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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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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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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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One on God's side is a majority.
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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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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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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 best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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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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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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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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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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