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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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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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"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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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."
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"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
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"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government."
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"Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains."
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"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
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