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Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

— Daniel O'Connell Attributed

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in Wendell Phillips, speech on the 100th anniversary of O'Connell's birth (August 6, 1875), Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, 2d series (1891), p. 398. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

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