"What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind."
-Wendell Phillips
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.“
-Wendell Phillips
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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."
-Wendell Phillips
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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."
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"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers."
-Wendell Phillips
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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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