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From Quotes by Wendell Phillips
- Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
- There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;…
- 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…
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered…
- Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
- You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
- Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you…
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
- 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…
- Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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