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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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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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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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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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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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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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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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The heart is the best logician.
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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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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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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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