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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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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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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 man meets his Waterloo at last.
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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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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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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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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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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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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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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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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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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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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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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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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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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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