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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

Wendell Phillips

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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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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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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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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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Revolutions never go backwards.
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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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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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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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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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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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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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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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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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