Wendell Phillips Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Heart, Silence, Soul

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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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• Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

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  Republic, Tenure

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