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Carrie Chapman Catt1 quote
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt · 1900John Galsworthy1 quote
Public opinion's always in advance of the law. — John Galsworthy · 1922Learned Hand1 quote
This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where the spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish. — Learned Hand · 1942