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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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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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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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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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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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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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What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
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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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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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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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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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