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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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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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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 use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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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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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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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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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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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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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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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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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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