55 ordspråk av Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips föddes den
29 november 1811 och dog den 2 februari
1884 - whose eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality
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I do sense an extra zip,
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
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On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
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One, on God's side, is a majority
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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