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Government Quotes by Wendell Phillips
- Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
- Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
- We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
- Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- 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.
- Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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