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• The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

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  Moving, Progress, World

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• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

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  Tables, Today, Tomorrow

  Wendell Phillips (1982). “Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom”

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• Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

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  Justice, Rate, Ifs

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• There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.

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  Wall, Men, Principles

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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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  College, Church, Literature

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• Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

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  Character, Men, Years

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• Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

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  Safety, Republic, Distrust

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• Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

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  Horse, Political, Politics

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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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  Mind, Littles, Easy

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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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  Father, Cracks, Pieces

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.231

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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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  Progress, World, Steps

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.14

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• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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  Conquer, Ability

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• The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

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  Grace, Agitation, Phrases

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• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

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  World, Action, Puritan

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.229

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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.

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  Given, Statesmen, Presidency

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.309

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• Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

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  Firsts, Print, Train

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.9

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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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  War, Reading, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.40

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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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  Taken, Sleep, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1891). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series”

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• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

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  Example, Speak, Authority

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.114

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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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  Soldier, Victory, Liberty

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.274

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• A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.

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  War, Government, People

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• War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

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  War, Thunder, Niagara

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.408

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• Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

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  Republic, Tenure

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• Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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  Animal, Worry, Forever

  Wendell Phillips (1884). “Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot”

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• Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

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  Stars, Children, Giving Up

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