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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

~Wendell Phillips

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

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

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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.

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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: November 29th, 1811

Died: February 2nd, 1884

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