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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.Wendell Phillips
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.Wendell Phillips
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When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.Wendell Phillips
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.Wendell Phillips
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
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Revolutions are not made they come.Wendell Phillips
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Christianity is a battle not a dreamWendell Phillips
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.Wendell Phillips
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.Wendell Phillips
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What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.Wendell Phillips
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What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.Wendell Phillips
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.Wendell Phillips
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One on God's side is a majority.Wendell Phillips
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.Wendell Phillips
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Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.Wendell Phillips
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.Wendell Phillips
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.Wendell Phillips
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.Wendell Phillips
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One on God's side is a majority.Wendell Phillips
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.Wendell Phillips
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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.Wendell Phillips
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Politics is but the common pulse beat.Wendell Phillips
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Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.Wendell Phillips
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Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.Wendell Phillips
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As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."Wendell Phillips
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.Wendell Phillips
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Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.Wendell Phillips
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.Wendell Phillips
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.Wendell Phillips
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.Wendell Phillips
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.Wendell Phillips
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.Wendell Phillips
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.Wendell Phillips
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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.Wendell Phillips
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Responsibility educates.Wendell Phillips
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.Wendell Phillips
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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.Wendell Phillips