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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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Train
Freedom
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First
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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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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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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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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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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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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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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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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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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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