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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
Swords
Hearts
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Heart
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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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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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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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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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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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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The heart is the best logician.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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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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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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