| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24157 |
| QUOTATION: | The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J. William Fulbright (b. 1905), U.S. Democratic politician. speech, Nov. 30, 1954, to U.S. Senate. |
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