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Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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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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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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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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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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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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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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 heart is the best logician.
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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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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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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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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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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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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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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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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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