All 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.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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