Wendell Phillips, speech, New York (Jan. 21, 1863).
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Give it only the fulcrum of Plymouth Rock, an idea will upheave the continent.
— United States
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Source: Wikiquote: "United States" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), pp. 21–23.)
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