"Republics exist only on the tenure of being……" — Wendell Phillips
"Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust."
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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips has 77 quotes on this site.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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More Agitated Quotes
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Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the…
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It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting…
— Eknath Easwaran
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This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity,…
— Anthony Burgess
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink…
— Truman Capote
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We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly…
— Dalai Lama
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The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to…
— Unknown Author
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The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is…
— Wendell Berry
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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
— Ovid
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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present;…
— Ken Wilber
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Pondering a passage of scripture can be a key to unlock revelation and the guidance and inspiration of the Holy…
— Richard G. Scott
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