"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
-Wendell Phillips
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"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.“
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"You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency."
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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."
-Wendell Phillips
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"Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
-Wendell Phillips
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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