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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Law never made men a whit more just. – Henry David Thoreau

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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken

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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. – Aristotle, Politics

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. – Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe

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