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Quote by Wendell Phillips
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion. – Wendell Phillips

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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. РHonor̩ de Balzac

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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. – Earl Warren

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. – Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707

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