"Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion."

-- Wendell Phillips

#Law Quotes #Land Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.”
“My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.”
“He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.”
“Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.”
“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”
“Up against Goliath, to bring butter home. I'm David on pavement, sling another stone.”
“It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.”
“It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.”

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