Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Exigencies create the ...
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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.
Wendell Phillips
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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