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

~ Wendell Phillips

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

~ Wendell Phillips

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

~ Wendell Phillips

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

~ Wendell Phillips