Quote #2
The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
More from Wendell Phillips
- Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far …
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
- What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
- One on God's side is a majority.
- Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
- Whether in chains or in laurels, Liberty knows nothing but victories.
- Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
- Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.