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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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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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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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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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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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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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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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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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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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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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