"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the……" — 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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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips has 77 quotes on this site.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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More Corrupt Quotes
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one of 489 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt…
— Glenn Beck
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and…
— Joseph Addison
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their…
— Bono
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on…
— Stokely Carmichael
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people…
— Anton Chekhov
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are…
— Jack Abramoff
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
— Marquis de Sade
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds…
— Juvenal
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
— William Shakespeare
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