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With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes are waste paper, lacking all executive force.
With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes are waste paper, lacking all executive force.
Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Wendell Phillips
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- Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 149 · printed citation: Wendell Phillips · subject: Law
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