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

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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Yesterday
Belief
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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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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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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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