Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips
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  1. What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

  2. How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

  3. When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

  4. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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