"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
"Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ."
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Source: The Scholar in a Republic by Wendell Phillips. Reported in Carlos Martyn and Wendell Phillips, The Agitator (1890), p. 581, June 30, 1881.
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