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• Every man meets his Waterloo at last. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Nov. 1, 1859
• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• Revolutions never go backward. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Feb. 12, 1861
• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
  -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Dec. 21, 1855...
• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. -- Wendell Phillip
• Aristocracy is always cruel. -- Wendell Phillip
• The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves.
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• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. -- Wendell Phillip
• That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863...