"The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet."
— Wendell Phillips

January 1, 1970

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Speech at the Melodeon, on the first anniversary of the rendition of Thomas Sims (12 April 12 1852), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips (1884), p. 91.