"He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true."
— Wendell Phillips

January 1, 1970

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Oration delivered at Daniel O'Connell celebration, Boston (6 August 1870), published in Wendell Phillips: The Agitator (1890) by William Carlos Martyn, p. 563