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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/24/ink/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/24/ink/ Branigin, active for years in Democratic politics and an aspirant for the nomination for governor in 1955, said in referring to newspaper publishers, “I never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.” Political power grows out of the barrel (Mao ended the phrase with "of a gun", but that was just a red herring)