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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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722 |
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AUTHOR:
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Benjamin Harvey Hill (1823–82) |
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QUOTATION:
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But, sir, I have said I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain, and control them; but there is a corporation we may all well dread. That corporation is the Federal Government. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Senator BENJAMIN H. HILL, remarks in the Senate on the Pacific Railroad funding bill, March 27, 1878, Congressional Record, vol. 7, p. 2067. |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government |
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