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. (Wendell Phillips)

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.

Wendell Phillips

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