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Wendell Phillips Quotes: To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
         

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.


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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.



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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.



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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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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.



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Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.



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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.



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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.



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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.



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





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