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

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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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Somebody recently figured out that we have 35 million laws to enforce the ten commandments. – Attributed to both Bert Masterson and Earl Wilson

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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906

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The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. – Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own

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