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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

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
Flatter
Praise
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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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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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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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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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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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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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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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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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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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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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One on God's side is a majority.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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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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