Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. -Wendell Phillips

 

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.


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This quote is just one of 10 total Wendell Phillips quotes in our collection. Wendell Phillips is known for saying 'Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.' as well as some of the following quotes.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. -Wendell Phillips
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. -Wendell Phillips
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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