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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Waterloo
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Defeat
Destiny
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Men

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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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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another but get something.
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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