Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Idleness
Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence.
Wendell Phillips.—Speech, Boston, Oct. 4, 1859.