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“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Present Crisis.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8dbaef00c11641d60474ed199f5af4aa0d3c7822d4ea53a2e418c4788f7e3570
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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