Wendell Phillips Quote

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.


Speeches, Lectures, and Letters (ed. 1905)


No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.