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• Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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  Law, Land, Yesterday

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

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• We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

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  Quality, Genius, Quantity

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.479

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• On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

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  Inspirational, Destiny, Hung

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• Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

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  Children, Government, Self

  Wendell Phillips (1863). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.307, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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  Atmosphere, Brain, Agitation

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• Revolutions are not made, they come.

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  Revolution, Rebellious, Made

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

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• The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

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  Thinking, Soul, Religion

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

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• The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

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  Men, Liberty, Prohibition

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• The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

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  Integrity, Party, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 352, 1895.

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• Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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  Discipline, Growth, Want

  Wendell Phillips (1861). “Disunion: 2 discourses”, p.28

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• Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

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  Men, Thinking, World

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

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• Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

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  Education, Thoughtful, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.246

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• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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  Boredom, Criticism, Form

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• Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.

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  Delay, World, Sun

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• The heart is the best logician.

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  Heart

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.321

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• Aristocracy is always cruel.

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  Aristocracy

  Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison, C C Burleigh (2007). “No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts -- Including, Toussaint L'Ouverture”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

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  Greatness, Men, Trifles

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• Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

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  Freedom, Responsibility, Liberty

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.52

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• There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

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  Crazy, Destiny, Europe

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.51

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• The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

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  Christian, Truth, Real

  Wendell Phillips (1955). “Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia”

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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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• Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

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  Mean, Past, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1853). “Speech of Wendell Phillips in vindication of the course pursued by the American Abolitionists”, p.36

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

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  Justice, Rate, Ifs

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• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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

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