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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

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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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First
Dragging
Preach
Gained
Print
Train
Freedom

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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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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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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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