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Hearts are stronger than swords.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Heart
Swords
Hearts
Stronger

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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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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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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
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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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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.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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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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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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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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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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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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