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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
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Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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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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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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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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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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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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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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Never forgive at the ballot box!
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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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