Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Philip Hart

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Philip Hart

Philip Aloysius Hart was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington, D.C. in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate".

The Establishment is always against protest. — © Philip Hart
The Establishment is always against protest.
If you come to work in the Senate, and the morning paper shows that your colleagues in the House have not been permitted to get to work. You know what the speeches will be for two months. It won't be about the evil we're doing in the field in Vietnam; it'll be about law and order in America. And that's crazy.
In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.
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