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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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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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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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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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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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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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