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The press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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The heart is the best logician.
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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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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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The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
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Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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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 best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life men of no principle, but of great talent and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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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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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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