Quote#Books & Reading
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind,…
Quote byWendell Phillips · 1811–1884
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Anti-Slavery Speech (January 1852), in The Works of Wendell Phillips (1902), pp. 22-23.
English (original)
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.
— Wendell Phillips
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