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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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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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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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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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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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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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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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