Wendell Phillips Quotes - Page 5

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• The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

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  Heart, Silence, Soul

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• Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Beauty, Writing, Matter

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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• God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

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  Giving, Justice, Guarantees

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• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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  War, Law, Public Opinion

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.264

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• Revolutions never go backwards.

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  Revolution, Backwards

  "Speech". February 17, 1861.

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• If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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  Want, Firsts, Causes

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• Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.

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  Arms, Insurrection

  "Speeches, Lectures, and Letters".

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• Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

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  Political, Progress, World

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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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  Rocks, America, Plymouth

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

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• Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

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  War, Agitation, Alive

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• Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

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  Fighting, Government, Ideas

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

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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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  Men, Law, Feet

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 12 Apr. 1852

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• Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

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  Political, Pulse, Fever

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.152

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• Though plunged in ills and exercised in care,
  Yet never let the noble mind despair.

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  Mind, Despair, Noble

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