Logo
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

Other quotes by Wendell Phillips

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. – Wendell Phillips

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Wendell Phillips
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
category

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. – Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!

Category:
Justice & Law

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

Category:
Justice & Law

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

Category:
Justice & Law

A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. – Lord Brougham

Category:
Justice & Law

Random Quotes

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. – Ansel Adams

Category:
good

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. Thats the same marriage I have. – Curtis Sliwa

Category:
Marriage

The Seder is long, but delightful, and no matter how sleepy we feel at the end of it we are very happy. – Aunt Naomi

Category:
Passover

Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. – Robert Frost

Category:
Plants