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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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