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01c. 1847 AD

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

Wendell Phillips / quote

02c. 1847 AD

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.

Wendell Phillips / quote

03c. 1847 AD

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips / quote

04c. 1847 AD

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Phillips / quote

05c. 1847 AD

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

Wendell Phillips / quote

06c. 1847 AD

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.

Wendell Phillips / quote

07c. 1847 AD

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

Wendell Phillips / quote