Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Wendell Phillips

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

Wendell Phillips

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Wendell Phillips

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External vigilance is the price of liberty.

Wendell Phillips

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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Wendell Phillips

Tags: memory immortality slavery abolition

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What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

Tags: books education mind guns gunpowder printing-press

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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Wendell Phillips

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