Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living… - Wendell Phillips

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips (29 November 1811 – 2 February 1884), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American abolitionist, advocate of Native American rights, and orator.

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The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.

Truth is one forever, absolute; but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition, of the spectator.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. - Wendell Phillips

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