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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 994 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) |
| QUOTATION: | Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HENRY WARD BEECHER, “Civil Law and the Sabbath,” sermon delivered December 3, 1882.—Plymouth Pulpit, vol. 5 (new series), p. 416 (1883). |
| SUBJECTS: | Law |
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