"Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution……" — Wendell Phillips
"Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back."
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Wendell Phillips
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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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