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Wendell Phillips

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

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

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Amber Hurdle

"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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Amber Hurdle

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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Amber Hurdle

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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Amber Hurdle

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

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Amber Hurdle

"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

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"Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress."
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"The keener the want the lustier the growth."
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"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
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"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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"Responsibility educates."
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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."
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"Christianity is a battle not a dream."
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"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."
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