Wendell Phillips Quote

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.


Speeches, Lectures, and Letters (ed. 1864)


To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.