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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Quality
Quantity
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Genius

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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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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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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
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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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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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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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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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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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