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Wendell Phillips was a distinguished American lawyer, abolitionist, and orator. Born on November 29, 1811, he was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement and a vocal opponent of slavery. Known for his eloquent speeches and advocacy for civil rights, Phillips passed away on February 2, 1884.

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Famous Wendell Phillips Quotes

“Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

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

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

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

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.”

“The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.”

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Book:Selections from the works of Wendell Phillips

Source: Selections from the works of Wendell Phillips