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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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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. – Wendell Phillips

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. – Charles Evans Hughes

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The more laws the more offenders. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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Law: the only game where the best players get to sit on the bench. – Author Unknown

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