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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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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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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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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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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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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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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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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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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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