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When I look upon these crowded thousands, and see them trample on their consciences and the rights of their fellow-men at the bidding of a piece of parchment, I say my curse be on the Constitution of these United States.

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The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips
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Born: November 29, 1811
Died: February 2, 1884 (aged 72)
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