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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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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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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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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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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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