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Wendell Phillips

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

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"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

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"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

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"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."

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"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

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"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."

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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

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"Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake."
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