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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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One on God's side is a majority.
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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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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 class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.
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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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