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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
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Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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