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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
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Boston
Massachusetts
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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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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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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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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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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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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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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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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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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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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