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1811–1884 United States
Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American abolitionist, advocate of Native American rights, and orator.
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In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.
The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
Truth is one forever, absolute; but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition, of the spectator.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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.
There are two kinds of defeat. Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth — to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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