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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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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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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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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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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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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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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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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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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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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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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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