It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Unknown
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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Aristotle
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
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R. Kelly
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not...
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Learned Hand
I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of...
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Marguerite Yourcenar
More Quotes By Wendell Phillips
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
