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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Revolutions never go backward.Wendell Phillips
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
Wendell Phillips
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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.
Wendell Phillips
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Wendell Phillips
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