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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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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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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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