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

Wendell Phillips

Progress

World

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Wendell Phillips

Agitation

One on God's side is a majority.

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God

Majority

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

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

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Praise

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Wendell Phillips

Thought

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

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Universe

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

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Ability

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.