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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

Wendell Phillips

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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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Genius
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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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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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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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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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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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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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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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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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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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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