"Where two evils present, a wise administration, if there be room for an option, will choose the least."
— Evil

January 1, 1970

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J. Foster, in Case of Pressing Mariners (1743), 18 How. St. Tr. 1330; reported in Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 91.